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  2. Gun Control Act of 1968 - Wikipedia

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    An Act to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for better control of the interstate traffic in firearms. Acronyms (colloquial) GCA, GCA68: Enacted by: the 90th United States Congress: Effective: October 22, 1968: Citations; Public law: 90-618: Statutes at Large: 82 Stat. 1213-2: Codification; Titles amended: 18 U.S.C.: Crimes and ...

  3. Hate crime laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, enacted 18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2), permits federal prosecution of anyone who "willfully injures, intimidates or interferes with, or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with ... any person because of his race, color, religion or national origin" [1] or because of the victim's attempt to engage in one of six types of federally protected activities ...

  4. Murders of Andrew Bagby and Zachary Turner - Wikipedia

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    Andrews later said that the law "gives [the Bagbys] some sense that someone has heard their cries so this will not happen again, to change the law to make sure something this tragic will never happen again." [18] David Bagby penned a book about the case, Dance with the Devil: A Memoir of Murder and Loss, which was published in 2007. [19]

  5. The Law that Never Was - Wikipedia

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    The Law That Never Was: The Fraud of the 16th Amendment and Personal Income Tax is a 1985 book by William J. Benson and Martin J. "Red" Beckman which claims that the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, commonly known as the income tax amendment, was never properly ratified.

  6. Blood quantum laws - Wikipedia

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    At the time, the federal government required persons to have a certain BQ to be recognized as Native American, and thus eligible for financial and other benefits under treaties or sales of land. [6] The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 marked the beginning of the US government's widespread application of the blood quantum idea.

  7. California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 - Wikipedia

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    [111] [112] The bills passed the state legislature in August 2002, and Governor Davis signed them into law in October. [99] [112] [113] Growers filed suit in state court to have the amendments declared unconstitutional, but a state appeals court upheld the revisions in 2006. [114] Another attempt to revise the law in 2007 was also unsuccessful.

  8. February 1925 - Wikipedia

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    The law excludes certain classes of workers involved in foreign or interstate commerce, such as longshoremen and railroad employees. Nikolai Golitsyn, the last Prime Minister of Imperial Russia prior to the October Revolution of 1917, was arrested by the Russian SFSR's secret police, the GPU , on suspicion of association with ...