Sarbanes-Oxley Act ACC/290 President George W. Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) into law on July 30‚ 2002 following the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals. The name of the act comes from the names of its creators: Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-Maryland) and Congressman Michael Oxley (R-Ohio). The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was created to restore the public confidence in both public accounting and publicly traded securities‚ and to assure ethical business practices through heightened levels
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went through other people’s property. Socially‚ it provided communication and easy travel‚ connecting family and friends with one another. The Interstate Highway Act is an important part of American history
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school student writing to inform you with the problems of the disability laws. The American with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 needs to be updated because they do not state enough benefits with health care. The laws should include free health care for families that have a member with disabilities. These moderate views on this law could change many lives. The American with Disabilities Act as of now states that it prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment‚ state and local government
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To understand one of the most prominent laws that affected the people of the United States‚ the history of where it began needs to be understood. The history of the second Fugitive Slave Act goes back to 1793 when the first Fugitive Slave Act was enacted by Congress‚ accrediting local governments to seize and return fugitive slaves to their owners and enforced penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. The law stated that “no person held to service of labor in one state‚ under the laws thereof
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"Taking" Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA)‚ 16 U.S.C. § 1532(19) (2006). - "The term ’take’ means to harass‚ harm‚ pursue‚ hunt‚ shoot‚ wound‚ kill‚ trap‚ capture‚ or collect‚ or to attempt to engage in any such conduct." § 1538 (a)(1)(B) - "it is unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to . . . . take any such species within the United States or the territorial sea of the United State." "Knowingly" United States v. McKittrick‚ 142 F.3d 1170‚ 1177 (9th Cir
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Clean Water‚ and Endangered Species Acts. The goal of the Clean Air Act was to lower pollutants in the air. This would allow the environment to thrive and cause fewer premature deaths in the country. The Clean water Act implemented a set of well-needed water quality standards. It also prevented disposal of harmful chemicals into a body of water. The Endangered Species Act was created protect and replenish animal species that are in danger of extinction. The act extends to the ecosystems that endangered
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1.1 THE EQUALITY ACT 2010 The Equality Act 2010 is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which makes provisions and sets the requirements for strategic decision makings by Ministers of the Crown and others. These provisions govern the exercise of functions of the Ministers of the Crown with regards to: • The desirability of reducing socio-economic inequalities • Reforming and harmonising equality law and restate the greater part of the enactments relating to discrimination and certain personal
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Amber Harris Diane Mercer Honors English 1 23 April 2016 Affordable Care Act Affordable Care Act is the notion of affordability and the role of health insurance in making otherwise unaffordable health care affordable (Nyman and Trenz 264). The Affordable Care Act gives every American a right to health care through Obamacare. Millions of Americans have benefitted by receiving insurance coverage through the ACA. Many of these people were unemployed or had low-paying jobs. Some could not work because
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The Social Security Act was created August 14‚ 1935. This Act was made during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term as president of the United States by the President’s Committee on Economic Security and by Frances Perkins‚ and also passed by Congress as part of the New Deal Act. The Act was an attempt to restrict what were seen as a threats in the modern American lifestyle‚ including older people‚ Poverty‚ unemployment‚ and the struggles of single women with fatherless children was another
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On May 1830‚ President Andrew Jackson (1829–1837) signed the Indian Removal Act‚ which would take tribes of eastern Indians‚ living in settled states‚ and resettle them in specially designated districts west of the Mississippi River in Indian Territory (now the state of Oklahoma). Many tribes were affected by the Indian Removal Act. Most notably‚ the Cherokees‚ Choctaws‚ Creeks‚ Chickasaws‚ and Seminoles tribes were subjected to eviction (O’Neill 11). By the large‚ these tribes were known as the
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