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Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act. The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), is a United States federal law enacted in the wake of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. It established the Resolution Trust Corporation to close hundreds of insolvent thrifts and provided ...
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (also called the Exchange Act, '34 Act, or 1934 Act) (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 73–291, 48 Stat. 881, enacted June 6, 1934, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 78a et seq.) is a law governing the secondary trading of securities (stocks, bonds, and debentures) in the United States of America. [1]
An act to give the Supreme Court of the United States authority to make and publish rules in actions at law. The Rules Enabling Act (ch. 651, Pub. L. 73–415, 48 Stat. 1064, enacted June 19, 1934, 28 U.S.C. § 2072) is an Act of Congress that gave the judicial branch the power to promulgate the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Amendments to ...
The overall Telecommunications Act, with both Exon's CDA and Cox/Wyden's provision, passed both Houses by near-unanimous votes and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton by February 1996. [25] Cox/Wyden's section became Section 509 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and became law as a new Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934.
Public law: Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 111–203 (text) Statutes at Large: 124 Stat. 1376–2223: Codification; Acts amended: Commodity Exchange Act Consumer Credit Protection Act Federal Deposit Insurance Act Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 Federal Reserve Act
Qualified immunity. In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle of federal constitutional law that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from lawsuits for damages unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a ...
U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 18. U.S. Const. amend. XIV. The Gold Clause Cases were a series of actions brought before the Supreme Court of the United States, in which the court narrowly upheld the Roosevelt administration 's adjustment of the gold standard in response to the Great Depression .
Public law. Public law is the part of law that governs relations and affairs between legal persons and a government, [1] between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, [2] as well as relationships between persons that are of direct concern to society. Public law comprises constitutional law ...