It identified a series of government failures, from inaction on long-standing provisions of the Equality Act designed to help disabled people, to repealing others that favour reducing business regulations over their rights, to the impact of spending cuts, as having a "hugely adverse impact" on those with disabilities.
If you're an atheist and interested in becoming a city council member or a juror in Maryland, well you can forget it: the East Coast state is one of seven in the US, which thanks to long-standing provisions in their state constitution, prohibits those who don't believe in God from holding public office.
The 90-minute documentary opens and closes with references to last year's Supreme Court ruling, which invalidated parts of SB 1070, but left standing the provision that police can check the immigration status of those they stop.
The Fed is required by law to hand over a large majority of its profits, a long-standing provision that has become a lot more lucrative in recent years.
"We feel the need to take appropriate steps to be able to enforce our terms of sale with these customers, including a long-standing provision that these medicines not be exported from Canada," a Pfizer spokesman, Nehl Horton, said.
The musicians wanted a peer-review panel to be able to override the music director's decision; Lincoln Center insisted that the final say should rest with the music director, although it later offered to continue a long-standing provision that allowed dismissals to be appealed to an outside arbitrator.
Meanwhile, a long-standing provision, which "steps up" the basis of someone's assets to their market value at his or her death (allowing them to be sold immediately with no capital gains taxes due), has also lapsed for 2010.
In Thursday's order, the court left standing two remaining provisions of the law that require police officers to check the documents of people they have "reasonable suspicion" to believe are in the country illegally, in a range of situations that include traffic stops and arrests.
Before the granting of Royal Assent, the Lords had adopted a Standing Order making provision for the election of peers.
That provision, standing alone, resolves the problem of individuals being unable to find decent health insurance at reasonable rates, and the related problem of people being bound to a job by their health coverage. .
