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The Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act was a bill proposed to the 112th United States Congress in 2011. [1] It was introduced to amend Section 846 of the Controlled Substances Act to close a loophole that has allowed many drug trafficking conspirators to avoid federal prosecution.
Safe harbor provisions appear in a number of laws and in many contracts. An example of safe harbor in a real estate transaction is the performance of a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment by a property purchaser: creating a "safe harbor" protecting the new owner if, in the future, contamination caused by a prior owner is found. Another common ...
In addition to the two general requirements listed above, all four safe harbors impose additional requirements for immunity. The safe harbor for storage of infringing material under § 512(c) is the most commonly encountered because it immunizes OSPs such as YouTube that might inadvertently host infringing material uploaded by users.
On February 27, 2018, the FOSTA-SESTA package was passed in the House of Representatives with a vote of 388–25. [1] On March 21, 2018, the FOSTA-SESTA package bill passed the Senate with a vote of 97–2, with only senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul voting against it. [2] The bill was signed into law by President Donald Trump on April 11, 2018 ...
In addition to the safe harbors and exemptions the statute explicitly provides, 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1) requires that the Librarian of Congress issue exemptions from the prohibition against circumvention of access-control technology. Exemptions are granted when it is shown that access-control technology has had a substantial adverse effect on the ...
Under the agreement, Safe Harbor was required to invest at least $1 million in the docks during the first 10 years of the lease. Another $100,000 would be required during each 10-year term the ...
Regulation S is a "safe harbor" that defines when an offering of securities is deemed to be executed in another country and therefore not be subject to the registration requirement under Section 5 of the 1933 Act. [19] The regulation includes two safe harbor provisions: an issuer safe harbor and a resale safe harbor. In each case, the ...
This is referred to as the Safe Harbor decision. [ 11 ] On 6 October 2015, the European Court of Justice invalidated the EC's Safe Harbor Decision, because "legislation permitting the public authorities to have access on a generalised basis to the content of electronic communications must be regarded as compromising the essence of the ...