The Oil Pollution Act (OPA) 90 is an act of the Congress enforced in response to the Exxon Valdez incident of Good Friday 1989. The accident involved Exxon Valdez which spilled more than 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound. It emerged from the incident that the country lacked sufficient resources to counter cases of oil spills. The country’s facility entrusted with the role of responding to cases of maritime oil pollution was the United States Coast of Guard. However‚ the agency
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA)‚ also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)‚ was enacted in 2010. It is an act currently in progress‚ that opens doors to many ethical issues and dilemmas. The act is designed to take effect in stages over a set of years. There are many provisions of this act‚ but the basic provisions are that health insurance providers will no longer be able to deny coverage to individuals with current or prior health issues and each policy provided by health
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lands‚ americans petitioned natives to be removed leading to the Indian Removal Act where authorized president‚ Andrew Jackson‚ signed a treaty to remove native tribes east of the Mississippi river and provide land west of the river. In difference‚ I believe this act wasn’t justified for several reasons; such as laws being disobeyed‚ natives being disrespected‚ and the Trail Of Tears The Indian removal act wasn’t justified because laws were disobeyed throughout the supreme court; for instance
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Affordable Care Act The health care system in the United States is a social problem that in one way or another affects all of us. The country has been led by many presidents that had tried to change the course of the heath problem of the most industrialized country in the world. Leaving behind the vested interest and power of many‚ in 2010 the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as ‘Obamacare’) was born‚ thanks to the effort of President Obama. Today many citizens have health insurance and
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The affordable Care Act Also known as Obama Care has been the most controversial topic that most Americans debate on. It wasn’t clear whether this would be beneficial for everyone. The main aim of the ACA was to increase healthcare access for low income Americans by providing affordable healthcare coverage‚ to improve the quality of healthcare‚ to reduce healthcare cost‚ and to regulate the healthcare insurance companies. Since the act was passed millions of uninsured Americans were able to get affordable
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III. JUDICIAL ACTIVISM The Equal Remuneration Act was passed about thirty two years ago but number of violations detected‚ prosecution launched‚ and convictions obtained have been extremely small. In fact‚ almost all the cases have been in the central sector‚ though most of the employments covered area in the state sectors. The Equal Remuneration Act is insufficient and ineffective. Firstly‚ it seeks to provide for payment of equal remuneration to male and female workers‚ but it does not guarantee
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but one must ask what are we sacrificing with this protection? The time period during the creation of the Sedition Acts was a time of suspicion and fear in the United States. The government enacted laws to ensure the safety of the President and Congress because they feared the people would lose trust in the government if they read things that were distasteful. Under the Sedition Act anyone who opposed or was against United States law or against the President could be imprisoned up to two years. It
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The Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) of 2010 (Public Law 111-220) was an act by Congress‚ and became law on August 3‚ 2010 ( ). The FSA intent is to reduce the gap between the amount of crack cocaine and powder cocaine needed to initiate federal criminal penalties from a 100:1 weight ratio to an 18:1 weight ratio. The FSA also eliminates the five-year mandatory minimum sentence for the possession of crack cocaine (Reid 2012). The FSA replaced the controversial Anti-Drug Abuse Act (ADAA) of 1986‚ that
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all Americans and would be much more affordable.When the Affordable Care Act was established‚ there were 27 million previously uninsured people that would gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Thanks to this new healthcare establishment‚ “about 16.4 million Americans gained health care coverage and the uninsured rate had been reduced by more than a third “Health”. The first example was that when the Affordable Care Act was first released many people knew that this was exactly what they needed
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Security Act of 1935‚ enacted during President Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ has become a third rail in today’s American society. By third rail‚ various scholars explain that if a politician these days were to try to alter or change the structure of the law dramatically‚ then they could essentially destroy their political career. One must understand how the United States gained this transformative law through our country’s history‚ both the official and non official actors involved in enacting the act‚ different
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