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Tucked into the bill, in Section 215, was something called the "business records" provision.
That bland language concealed the fact that the court's opinion dramatically reinterpreted the scope of the "library records" provision.
It was often innocuously described as the "library records" provision, conjuring the notion that the government should know if someone is checking out bomb-making books.
And at the 2004 Democratic Convention, in the speech that effectively launched his eventual campaign for President, he took aim at the "library records" provision of the law.
The law on which the order explicitly relies is the so-called "business records" provision of the Patriot Act, 50 USC section 1861.
But civil liberties advocates, who have pushed for the repeal of secret intelligence warrants under the library records provision, argue that federal authorities can already use standard criminal warrants at libraries if they have evidence linking a suspect to terrorism.
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When the wide-ranging overhaul of the state's open records provisions was made three years ago, however, exemptions were included.
The company's United States subsidiary pleaded guilty to violating the books and records provisions of the antibribery act and to aiding and abetting its customers in doing so.
In December 2000, the company settled a S.E.C. case by agreeing to not commit future violations of the same "books and records" provisions and paid a $300,000 penalty.
The proposed settlement involved the "books and records" provisions of the overseas bribery law that requires companies to properly report their transactions and maintain adequate internal controls.
Prosecutors on Monday charged Alcatel-Lucent, which is based in Paris, with violating the internal controls and books and records provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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