Sentence examples for major statute from inspiring English sources

In 1971, Stern wrote that the Hobbs Act was "one of the major statutes under which the federal government can combat local political corruption where the state is either unable or unwilling to do so," citing the Travel Act as the "other major statute".

After three decades of existence, it is appropriate that TSCA is undergoing significant examination, as the EPA, the chemical industry, environmentalists, and legislators all look at ways to revise this major statute.

The judges reviewed five other major statutes that directly address the issue of climate change, beginning with the National Climate Program Act of 1978 a generation ago and running through the Energy Policy Act of 2005 passed while this lawsuit was under way.

By the mid-1990s thEPAPA was enforcing 12 major statutes, including laws designed to control uranium mill tailings; ocean dumping; safe drinking water; insecticides, fungicides, and rodenticides; and asbestos hazards in schools.

In the past 40 years or so, ever since environmental law emerged as a separate field based on major statutes enacted in the 1970s, the Supreme Court has been reasonably receptive to cases brought by environmental groups.

It is the only major environmental statute whose core provisions have not been reauthorized or substantively updated since its adoption in the 1970s.

For example, Bank of America's securities unit has agreed four times since 2005 not to violate a major antifraud statute, and another four times not to violate a separate law.

It is also pushing Congress to amend the current major fraud statute to apply to any illegal transactions under the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, and to the multibillion-dollar stimulus package.

Within the next few days, Congress is likely to enact the first update of a major environmental statute in many years.

The company also agreed never to violate the major antifraud statutes.

Congress has provided explicit protection against retaliation in two major federal statutes.