Even more surprising was the decision in February of the federal and Alberta governments to charge Syncrude, a large tar-sands processor, with offences under environmental and bird-protection laws for the deaths of 500 ducks in one of the company's tailing ponds last April.
Under the broad consumer-protection laws of states like Washington, lawyers can seek treble damages for anything that smacks of fraud.
The problem is lawyers must convince the judge there is some way to conduct a trial that will account for the different rights consumers in 50 different states have under their own consumer-protection laws.
And Baillie believes that giving extra protection to under-18s is totally consistent with paying more attention to their views and trusting young people to have more of a role in democracy, such as voting.
While acknowledging that the case was not brought under the Data Protection Act - the pair could face possible jail terms - the information commissioner said it does have "parallels" with his own findings.
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They contacted his mother to say that he should be taken to the doctor, but these were "not referred for consideration under the inter-agency child protection procedures and did not come to the attention of children's services or the police until after his death".
In Australia, meanwhile, Philip Nitschke (a doctor who helped four terminally ill people to die under the protection of a now-repealed law in that country's Northern Territory) is pushing NuTech in new directions.
On Thursday, Iraqi police, accompanied by American troops, raided Chalabi's compound -- a raid that Chalabi claimed was engineered by elements of the deposed Baathist regime, under protection of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority.
Rice, barley, dairy products, and leaf tobacco farming operates under high tariff and non-tariff barrier protection.
Far-Right Jewish Israeli political activists held a peaceful demonstration in the radical Arab-Islamist dominated city of Umm el-Fahm in the Galilee under heavy police protection.
British courts have distinguished between the right to hold a religious belief - which is protected under the law - and the right to manifest or express it, where the protection is much more qualified.
Apple offered a one-year warranty, with an option to extend that cover under an AppleCare Protection Plan, but Italian law says that all goods have to come with a two-year warranty, and (critically) it is up to the retailer to inform customers of that fact.
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Mr. Brazil filed a nationwide class action alleging that the labeling and promotion of various fruit-related products were fraudulently misleading under California consumer protection laws.
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So while the tasks and expectations of the SEC have increased greatly under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act its resources have not kept pace.
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Additionally, TARP participants were the first companies required to conduct say-on-pay votes, introduce clawbacks and conduct risk assessments, practices that are now mandatory under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
As magic is all about secrets, you might expect magicians' tricks would gain protection under the principle of trade secrets - this is how Coca-Cola guards its recipe and how KFC protects the spices it uses on its chicken, for example.
JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, PNC, Bank of America, and five other banks are currently under investigation for persuading customers to opt into expensive overdraft-protection programs without always being made aware of cheaper alternatives.
They say high profile prisoners - usually on trial or convicted in murder or terrorism-related cases - are often kept under suicide watch and given more protection as they face massive media coverage and are deemed to be at risk from other inmates.
The proposal to cut the need for Criminal Records Bureau checks for adults working under supervision with children is part of the red tape-cutting Protection of Freedoms Bill currently being pored over in the Lords.
Godfrey Mahachi, director of the NMMZ - which comes under the home affairs ministry, admits the protection of the houses, which he sees as an "important historical reality for Zimbabwe", is not going to be easy.
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Under U.S. law, the clock on patent protection--20 years--starts ticking at a drug's invention.
Other studies are under way to determine whether antiretroviral drugs can offer similar protection to injection-drug users and heterosexuals.
The SEC has finally managed to find a worthy recipient for its first bounty payment under the whistleblower program established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank).
Mrs Bokova will also take part in a high-level breakfast meeting organized under the auspices of Sheikha Moza focusing on the protection of education during insecurity and conflict (21 September), and in an event on delivering quality education in humanitarian environments and conflict affected states, co-convened by UNESCO, UNICEF, Save the Children and other partners (24 September).
Under a unanimous-consent agreement reached last October, Lott first offered his "paycheck protection" legislation Monday.
As a result, the company is now under protection from its creditors, to whom it has to present a debt-restructuring proposal on June 8th.
But on September 7th came a bleak announcement: Moulinex-Brandt had suspended payments to creditors and been placed under six months' court protection while a buyer is sought.
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The raids, ordered by Interior Minister Otto Schily, were allowed under Germany's new anti-terror measures, passed in November, which lift the constitutional protection of religious organisations.
Under European regulations, the maximum fine for an accidental violation is 150, 000 euros - but data protection supervisor Johannes Caspar called for that amount to be increased in future.
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