The clauses that were overturned in the North Carolina law, labeled the Voter Information Verification Act, made voting harder in a number of ways.
That law, labelled a snooper's charter, would have required internet and mobile phone companies to keep records of customers' browsing activity, social media use, emails, voice calls, online gaming and text messages for a year.
During the floor debate last week in the House, Representative George Miller of California, the main Democratic supporter of the Bush-era law, labeled the bill the "Letting Students Down Act".
The individual mandate is designed to induce those without health insurance to purchase it by imposing what the law labeled a "penalty" if they do not have insurance starting in 2014.
The fiscal cliff would end the "Bush tax cuts" provisions, some of which have been enhancing the incentive to work (but beware – not all laws labeled "tax cuts" enhance incentives).
In the process, however, they found out they'd have to lease the sidewalk underneath — city laws label such awnings as obstructions of the public right-of-way.
Not only would state laws requiring clear labeling of GMOs on food packages be taken away, but Virginia's law to label GMO seeds would be gone as well.
Current law requires labels only for garments that have $150 or more worth of animal fur.
The rate law was labelled "anti-competitive" and bad for consumers by a US District Court judge, Charles Kocoras.
Prior to 1978, abortions were banned in Italy under a Mussolini-era law that labelled them a "crime against the purity of the Italian race".
The committee's chairman, Peter Thomas Burns, a Canadian law professor, labeled the reported use of stun guns and belts by federal marshals "quite alarming".
