It is noteworthy that American workers in the airline and railway industries, which are governed not by the 1935 law but by a stronger statute, the Railway Labor Act, have much higher rates of unionization.
I would therefore ask Mrs Gradin and her colleague to think again about ways of giving this body, responsible for clarifying biotechnological choices, a stronger statute.
Massachusetts has applied the state's strong antidiscrimination statutes to tournaments at private golf and country clubs, which "surely supports the conclusion that it applies to this case," the judge wrote.
Strong Federal statutes exist to protect intellectual property (via patents) and block the sharing of trade secrets (through enforceable non-disclosure agreements).
The so-called Bork law, one of the country's strongest privacy statutes, prohibits the disclosure of personally identifiable rental information without consumer consent.
It would have taken a remarkably strong federal statute, loaded with every enforcement measure in the book, to combat a social problem of that magnitude.
The court said California's strong domestic partnership statute was not enough to solve the inequality problem.
It said the state's strong domestic partnership statute was inadequate, making California the second state to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage.
The firmly grounded ruling said that everyone has a basic right "to establish a legally recognized family with the person of one's choice," and found California's strong domestic partnership statute to be inadequate.
As it happens, Washington, D.C., has enacted a very strong anti-SLAPP statute -- the City Paper is the first defendant to put it to the test.
