At issue is a disconnect between the ECPA and the Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) of 1994.
Finally, a third federal law that may disallow online, pay-to-enter NCAA Tournament pools is the Uniform Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement act of 2006 limited credit card use for online gambling, but kept fantasy sports legal.
The police already have a very cozy relationship with the phone companies, thanks to the 1994 Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act.
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He has introduced the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act to regulate the business with an eye to taxing it.
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act comes into full effect Tuesday nearly four years after Congress passed the law under controversial circumstances.
The financial firms are on the front lines, especially since the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act came into full effect in June.
The Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act of 1988, which provided increased penalties, passed unanimously (410-0) in the House and by voice-vote in the Senate.
Ever since the 2006 passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), online poker and other supposed games of chance have been banned in the digital world.
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At the same time, we have benefitted from laws that have strengthened our crime-fighting abilities, including the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, Anti-Terrorism laws, the Economic Espionage Act, and the Health Care Fraud Statute.
Specifically, the petition asks Skype to spell out its compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act and National Security Letters, both of which can require the handover of private user data to government agencies.
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That list is part of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, otherwise known as Prop 65, which prohibits businesses from knowingly exposing individuals to listed substances without providing a clear and reasonable warning.
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Lobbying issues include cyber security, data retention, the reform of electronic privacy laws, and the controversial Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) which law enforcement would like updated to make it easier to wiretap the Internet.
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It was a difficult spectacle to watch for the folks at PartyGaming, which was the biggest online gambling company in the world thanks to its domination of the U.S. online poker market until Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in 2006.
For example, Kaplan said that even if Campos and Elie argued they were only financial transaction providers they might not be exempt from violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act if they had knowledge of bets and were controlled by unlawful online gambling firms.
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America remains the world's biggest single online gambling market by far, despite the passage in 2006 of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA) a provision tacked onto a port-security bill that prohibits the transfer of funds from a financial institution to an online gambling site.
He was a major architect of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 which included major curbs on assault weapons, not only barring the manufacturing of 19 different brands of firearms, but also outlawing the possession of newly manufactured high-capacity magazines.
Joe Biden was a major architect of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 which included major curbs on assault weapons, not only barring the manufacturing of 19 different brands of firearms, but also outlawing the possession of newly manufactured high-capacity magazines.
The Gulf Security and Iran Sanctions Enforcement Act, recently introduced by Representatives Ron Klein (D-FL) and Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Ben Cardin (D-MD), requires companies bidding on these energy leases to disclose that neither they nor their partners are in violation of U.S. sanctions laws or doing business with entities the U.S. Treasury identifies as under Iranian government control.
When it became clear she'd been ripped off, she organized an investor revolt, allied with disgruntled castoffs from the men's inner circle and gathered evidence to prod law enforcement to act.
Well, standing up for the American people is exactly what we're doing here today with two bills that I'm about to sign -- The Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, and The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act.
So with that, I'm going to sign The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, along with these extraordinary legislators who helped to make it happen.
Stronger enforcement of regulations would act as a deterrent and help reduce corruption levels.
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Federal courts have blocked four key parts of the state's Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, known as SB 1070.
It is also important to note that the enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act continues -- the President is constitutionally bound to enforce the laws and enforcement of the DOMA will continue.
The current enforcement approach for larger content distributors is the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), which enables law enforcement to submit immediate takedown notices.
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The Act contains no enforcement mechanism.
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The Court in Astra USA explained that Congress not only declined to include third-party litigation as an enforcement mechanism in the PHS Act, it passed on a subsequent opportunity to create a private right when informed that HHS oversight of Medicaid pricing was sorely lacking.
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In October 2001, Congress enacted the Patriot Act by overwhelming, bipartisan margins, arming law enforcement with new tools to detect and prevent terrorism: The USA Patriot Act was passed nearly unanimously by the Senate 98-1, and 357-66 in the House, with the support of members across the entire political spectrum.
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And as the Justice Department has made clear, its enforcement of the Controlled-Substance Act remains unchanged.
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