Word: enactments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress to enact a "buyers' bill of rights." The President declared: "Consumerism is a healthy development that is here to stay." Among other things, he proposed the establishment of a new consumer division in the Justice Department and expanded powers that would enable the FTC to seek injunctions against unfair business practices. As Nader and other consumer activists have long been demanding, the President also asked Congress to allow consumers to join together in "class action" damage suits in federal courts against errant manufacturers or merchants. If found guilty of deceptive trade practices, manufacturers would have to bear all legal...
...also asked the City Council to file a petition in the state legislature requesting permission to enact a rent control...
Three Cambridge City Councillors will ask the Council today to place an "opinion referendum" on rent control on the November 4 election ballot. The referendum would enact no law but would permit people to vote on the concept of rent control...
Councillors Thomas H. Mahoney, Barbara W. Ackermann, and Cornelia B. Wheeler will also ask the Council to request that the State legislature permit the City to enact a rent control...
...Cambridge Peace and Freedom party for a rent control referendum. The court ruled that a rent control law would be unconstitutional if passed and therefore could not be placed on the ballot. The Massachusetts State Constitution states that the legislature must give permission before a city can enact rent control...