These laws were enacted to prevent this kind of tragedy.
Consumer protection laws were enacted to regulate product safety and advertising aimed at children.
Policies that were enacted to avoid racial conflict between blacks and whites mostly proved successful.
Certain tax rules were enacted to discourage pyramidal business structures and large golden parachutes, and to encourage performance-based compensation.
That is because, as the Supreme Court has put it, the antitrust laws were enacted to protect "competition, not competitors".
League players are no longer the sorts of workers that American labor laws were enacted to protect.
Bankruptcy laws were enacted to provide and govern an orderly and equitable liquidation of the estates of insolvent debtors.
In the second case, several programs were enacted to increase the percentage of women and minority recruits, and retain them long-term.
The Public Disclosures Act gave protection to whistleblowers, new rights were enacted to protect part-time and temporary workers, agency workers and those subjected to control by gangmasters.
Civil rights lawyers said deportation laws were enacted to deal with cases in which the government was trying to make people leave.
Giant scandals rocked French, German and Italian politics over the last quarter century and reforms were enacted to bring in state funding.
