Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haar, a noted expert on inner city revitalization and a former presidential task force officer, supported the new law and urged Congress to include deregulation of local building and municipal codes to encourage businesses to move to the country's most debilitated urban areas...
EARLIER this month, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of 26 Philadelphia anti-abortion protesters who were fined $108,000 under the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law...
...their zealousness, Congress went a little too far. Parts of the law were left intentionally vague to allow prosecutors free reign in their efforts to nail organized crime kingpins. There was also the valid worry that a law that singled out Italian-run organized crime would be unconstitutional...
...usual, the intended and unintended loopholes in the law have been used and abused in ways the bill's sponsors could never have imagined...
...Hampshire officials have already floated the idea of charging the anti-Seabrook Clamshell Alliance for the costs incurred by their civil disobedience. Just imagine what a RICO-like law would have done to the NAACP and other civil rights groups in the 1960s...