Filburn, upheld a Roosevelt-era law limiting grain production to prop up prices even when the farmer in question was growing grain entirely for his own consumption.
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Our modern concept that war should be governed by law dates from the era.
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The British government wants to minimise the risk that the charter, which enshrines such things as a right to strike, could threaten their liberalising, Thatcher-era labour-law reforms.
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The law, a Reagan-era legacy, requires employers to distribute notices to employees about COBRA when they begin their employment and also when an event such as divorce, job loss or death triggers COBRA-mandated coverage.
Libya's parliament has passed a law banning officials from the Gaddafi era from holding political office.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, had warned Democrats before the vote that his party would want to amend the bill -- possibly with hot-button issues like repealing the health care reform law or extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all income levels.
Though the stakes are clear, the law (which was developed in the era of railway barons) is not.
Law is deeply rooted in industrial-era ideas of resource scarcity.
But again, what we hope to see is some acknowledgement by Republican leaders that existing law when it comes to the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans should stay in place.
He pointed to the example of Herbert Hoover, the Depression-era president who signed protectionist legislation into law.
Back to the CBO numbers, the deficit projection for another year of trillion-dollar deficit is based on the idea that the law remain the same now and the Bush-era tax cuts not expire.
Look at what happens in 2015 under current law (that is, assuming all the Bush-era tax cuts and the Alternative Minimum Tax patch expire).
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The technological shift from desk-bound personal computers to wireless devices is driving the FTC's push for major revisions to the law, known as COPPA. It was written before an era of cellphones and tablets loaded with apps that can be designed to siphon up a person's precise location and other personal data highly valued by advertisers and data brokers.
Lost in the celebration of those halcyon Charleston days is that the era spanning 1920 (when the 18th Amendment became law) to 1934 (when the amendment was repealed) was marked by raging culture wars, rampant xenophobia, political upheaval, and threats of death or worse that came more often via poisonous industrial-strength alcohol masquerading as low-grade liquor than the rat-a-tat-tat of a Tommy gun.
On the other hand, it would codify the Bush-era lower income-tax rates for most Americans as permanent law, ending the recurring battles over how long they will endure.
Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School, has watched the LAPD and its high-profile controversies during the era that includes King, Simpson and Rampart.
Critics of the court say the decision will usher in a new era of corporate influence in elections, undermining the spirit of the 2002 campaign finance law, which was designed to curb "soft money" (or unregulated) political donations.
But the US government, which helped persuade Mr Saleh to hand over power, has defended the immunity law, saying it is necessary to give the president and his supporters "confidence that their era is over and it's time for Yemen to be able to move forward towards a democratic future".
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