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	Federal assault weapons ban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federal Assault Weapons Ban, or AWB, was a provision of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a federal law of the United States that included a prohibition on the sale of semiautomatic assault weapons manufactured after the date of the ban's enactment.
		The ban expired on September 13, 2004, as part of the law's sunset provision.
		The features banned by the law, however, were primarily superficial accessories such as bayonet mounts and flash suppressors, so when a weapon is banned as an assault weapon, the gun manufacturers complied with the law by removing the banned items, making the required superficial changes which render it legal again.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assault_weapons_ban_(USA) (1513 words)

	Legal Authority of New York City to Ban Audible Car Alarms
		Nor is it obviously a ban on an "activity" (such as using a power blower or landing a boat, as discussed in the case law) but is narrowly focused.
		However, if the factors articulated in Federico were applied, a ban on alarms would nonetheless likely be sustained given the serious impact of alarm noise, the futility of prior regulation, and the negligible benefits alarms provide their owners and the existence of alternative equipment.
		A ban on the operation of car alarms would not be inconsistent, although it would prohibit the operation of alarms that the State does not prohibit.
	www.transalt.org /info/caralarms/19appendixb.html (2949 words)

	BBC News \| HEALTH \| Tobacco ad ban legal, says court
		But the legal injunction holding up the ban was immediately re-imposed as the tobacco industry announced a further application to the House of Lords.
		At the Court of Appeal, the government argued that the ban was in the national interest and in accordance with manifesto pledges.
		Banning tobacco advertising is widely supported both by the public and by the medical profession.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/health/newsid_566000/566704.stm (595 words)

	LEGAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSES DIFFERING TEXTS ON ISSUE OF HUMAN CLONING
		The Sixth Committee (Legal) this morning began a two-day debate on the controversial issue of cloning with delegations divided over whether an international convention should ban reproductive cloning, of human beings while leaving open the question of human cloning for therapeutic purposes.
		He made two proposals: the holding of a scientific conference next year to produce a more accurate factual picture about the current human cloning technology and its various implications; and secondly, the compilation by the Secretariat of domestic laws and regulations on human cloning to be distributed to all Member States.
		He made it clear that should the United Nations proceed to develop a convention banning both therapeutic and reproductive human cloning, the United Kingdom would not participate in the negotiation of such a convention and would not sign up to it.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2004/gal3257.doc.htm (1911 words)

	Irish Times Article - Legal action on smoking ban unlikely (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Vintners' groups are expected to abandon plans to mount a legal challenge against the smoking ban after receiving legal advice indicating there is little chance of a successful action.
		The Vintners' Federation of Ireland has been told by three senior legal sources it stands a 40 per cent chance at best of securing an injunction, while there was no guarantee of any success at a full hearing.
		The disclosure is a significant boost to Mr Martin's plans to introduce the smoking ban on March 29th.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2004/0227/455633325HM1SMOKEBAN.html (425 words)

	PCWorld.com - Internet Access Tax Ban Stalls
		The current temporary tax ban, which expires this Saturday, was established for a three-year period in 1998 and extended for two more years in 2001.
		Chief among these are provisions adding a ban on state and local telecommunications taxes to the moratorium, which some senators say is unreasonably costly to states.
		Though the ban expires Saturday, the absence of a federally mandated extension "doesn't mean a darn thing for consumers," says David Quan of the National Governors Association.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,113224,00.asp (536 words)

	The information resource for the expiration of the 1994 semiauto ban!
		But the odds she faces to pass the weapons ban in the current Congress are probably steeper than they were in 1993, when the Senate narrowly approved the ban, or last March, when it passed 52-47 before dying in the body.
		It is evident to me that the letter writer either doesn't know the legal definition of an assault weapon or she is attempting to mislead readers into the conclusion that the assault weapons ban that expired in September allowed automatic weapons to be sold again, which it did not.
		While the so-called "assault weapons" ban was never really at the forefront of the presidential race, we don't need to be reminded of the promise anti-gun forces made that voters would retaliate en masse against President Bush for not actively pushing for the ban's renewal, resulting in a decisive defeat.
	www.awbansunset.com (10442 words)

	TED Case Studies:Legal Elephant Ivory Trade
		The ban was opposed by southern African countries who needed the trade for their citizens' livelihood and they further argued that their elephant populations were not in danger of extinction.
		Additionally CITES realized two problems resulting from their ban, that indeed elephants in these countries did not need to be included in Appendix I and that there were major shortfalls in the regulations of ivory trade under the 1990 ban.
		The lifting of the ban impacts the three nations directly in that they are able to continue their ivory trade and gain profits to improve their envorinmental conservation efforts.
	www.american.edu /TED/ivory.htm (1921 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Nuptial ban for gays legal?
		A new, impartial analysis of a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages seems to raise more questions than it answers regarding the potential impact the ballot initiative would have if voters approve it in November.
		Instead of looking at a number of legal protections individually, and deciding how many are OK before a relationship approaches a similarity to marriage, McCoy said he looks at the quality of such protections.
		He said Nebraska's attorney general issued a qualitative opinion that a bill to grant to a surviving domestic partner decision-making in organ donation, burial and funeral arrangements was unconstitutional.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595089356,00.html (749 words)

	ASH UK - Press Release: 22/5/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The tobacco advertising directive was agreed in June 1998 and a ban on tobacco advertising forms an important part of the Government's tobacco White Paper, and 1997 election manifesto.
		The Government had planned to introduce the first phase of the advertising ban on 10 December 1999 but was blocked by tobacco industry legal action.
		If the procedural and legal delays continue to block the advertising ban, ASH will press Ministers to introduce a comprehensive Tobacco Bill as primary legislation in the Queen's speech this year.
	www.ash.org.uk /html/press/000522.html (514 words)

	The Fda Ban Of L-Tryptophan: Politics, Profits And Prozac
		The fact that the FDA ban of L-Tryptophan and the Newsweek Prozac cover story occurred within four days of each other went unnoticed by both the media and the public.
		By publicly banning L-Tryptophan from its dietary supplement status and price, while allowing L-Tryptophan to be sold as a high-priced prescription drug, the naked duplicity of the FDA L-Tryptophan policy is revealed.
		At bottom, the FDA public ban of safe, non-contaminated L-Tryptophan is uneven, expensive, and biased in favor of the pharmaceutical industry.
	www.lef.org /fda/fdaban95.html (1468 words)

	OB/GYN News: Bush signs Partial-Birth Abortion Ban: legal challenges underway - News
		Legal challenges were filed even before the president signed the bill.
		The number of physicians and patients that will be affected by the ban is difficult to estimate because few statistics on the practice exist.
		Thirty-one states have enacted partial-birth abortion bans, but in every state where it has been challenged the courts have found the laws to be unconstitutional, according to the ACLU.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CYD/is_23_38/ai_111694377 (926 words)

	Irish Times Article - New legal challenge threatens introduction of smoking ban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Last month the Minister for Finance warned that it was difficult to predict the economic impact of the ban, and that this could be "wide of the mark".
		The ban cannot be implemented before the end of February, when a 90-day EU approval process ends.
		It is likely that a legal challenge could focus on a number of areas, including the wide-ranging effects of the ban.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2004/0106/4073078873HM1SMOKING.html (427 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Pierce County adopts sweeping ban on smoking; legal fight ahead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The ban is scheduled to begin in 30 days, but representatives of the Washington Restaurant Association called it "unwise" and "illegal" and vowed to sue.
		Phelps chided the Legislature for failing to adopt a statewide smoking ban, leaving it up to cities and counties to act.
		Taxpayers could be left holding the bill for the legal fight and could be required to pay damages to businesses that lose money as a result of the ban, he added.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2001807047_smokeban040.html (773 words)

	Legal Theory Blog
		Most contemporary American legal theorists were trained before virtue ethics reached its full flower in the 1980s and 1990s, and many law professors who have broad theoretical interests are only vaguely aware of the substantial impact that virtue ethics has had on contemporary moral philosophy.
		This book explores the thesis that legal roles force people to engage in moral combat, an idea that is implicit in the assumption that citizens may be morally required to disobey unjust laws, while judges may be morally required to punish citizens for civil disobedience.
		Legal theorists have long thought that the authority of the state--of legislative institutions, regulatory agencies, and the courts--is of the practical sort.
	lsolum.blogspot.com /2003_11_01_lsolum_archive.html (11299 words)

	Legal Scholars Craft Second Amendment Challenge to DC Gun Ban -- 11/21/2002
		The city's gun ban is among the most restrictive in the nation.
		United States upholding the D.C. gun ban, reasoning that "the right to keep and bear arms is not a right conferred upon the people by the federal Constitution." Rather, that the Constitution confers "a collective right" of the states to bear arms.
		While these are legal views arguably in the minority of recent Second Amendment scholarship, Ashcroft has allowed the District of Columbia U.S. attorney's office, which falls under the DOJ, to use the Sandidge decision to defend the district's gun ban.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200211\POL20021121b.html (742 words)

	Victory in Senate Has Anti-gun Groups Demanding 'Stronger' Ban - THR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The fact that the Senate passed an amendment extending the ban on "assault weapons" shows that "commonsense gun safety laws are back on the national agenda," Barnes said.
		The Clinton-era ban on "assault weapons" is a total fraud and should be allowed to lapse, Second Amendment groups say.
		Since the ban, WE have all been saying one of the reasons it is stupid is because flash suppressors, bayonet lugs, evil looking pistol grips, folding stocks, etc. have no affect on the fuction of the firearm.
	www.thehighroad.org /showthread.php?t=69184 (2283 words)

	Rep. Paul Letter to Pres. Bush Re: Semi-auto Ban - THR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We were thoroughly dismayed by the statement of your spokesman, Scott McClellan, that you support the reauthorization of the 1994 ban on scores of semi-automatic weapons and on magazines with greater than ten round capacity.
		As you know, the ban was part of President Clinton's prized crime bill, the "Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994," which passed Congress by a very slim majority.
		The semi-auto ban was a major part of a fanatical anti-gun agenda to ban legitimate firearms, which was repudiated in the elections of 1994 and 2000.
	www.thehighroad.org /showthread.php?t=20917 (864 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Pro-hunters start ban challenge
		Lawyers claim the 1949 Parliament Act, used to force through the ban, is itself invalid because it was never approved by the House of Lords.
		Tony Blair said the ban would now be an issue at the general election, expected early next year.
		The Countryside Alliance also claims the ban infringes European human rights legislation and is planning a separate legal action once the Hunting Bill comes into force on 18 February.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4024421.stm (648 words)

	Bid for handgun ban faces hurdles / S.F. measure's legal, practical obstacles
		San Francisco supervisors want to make the city the second in the nation to ban the ownership of handguns, but whether such a law would prove to be more than symbolic remains to be seen.
		First, legal challenges are being readied by those who see the proposed law -- set to go to voters next fall -- as bucking state law, which says law-abiding citizens do not need permits or licenses to keep handguns in their homes.
		Supporters of a ban say it would curb gun violence in the city by reducing the number of weapons available.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/17/MNGARADH4O1.DTL (1083 words)

	Scottish smoking ban opponents seek legal advice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Many owners of Scotland's pubs and clubs are seeking legal advice on whether they can challenge the banning of public smoking in Scotland.
		The Scottish Executive is planning to introduce a ban on smoking in public places by Spring 2006, with those ignoring the new laws facing fines of up to £3,600.
		The SLTA is suggesting a number of compromise proposals, such as a smoking ban at the bar and in any area where hot food is being served, as well as increasing ventilation and requiring pubs to allocate a minimum of 30 per cent of total floor space as a non smoking area.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=16275 (235 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Fresh legal challenge to hunt ban
		The case also raises the question of whether compensation should be paid to those people losing money and their livelihoods as a result of the ban, such as farriers, saddlers and feed merchants.
		The first legal challenge to the ban recently failed in the Court of Appeal.
		It was based on the argument that the use of the 1949 Parliament Act by MPs to force through the Hunting Act in the face of opposition from the House of Lords was invalid.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4320279.stm (304 words)

	New smoking ban a legal nightmare
		A letter from the labor inspectorate has informed restaurant owners that only police have the legal authority to eject customers for transgressing the new smoking ban.
		And the reason is this strange legislation that says that it is not the ones breaking the law that should pay, but the ones that own the premises," said Christian Aubert, head of the association for a better time out on the town.
		In other words, the smoker risks nothing by violating the pending smoking ban, but the place where the violation occurs can face stiff fines.
	www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article774638.ece?service=print (263 words)

	Not Geniuses: Federal Marriage Ban?
		Does it mean 1+ of the "legal incidents" or ALL of the "legal incidents." It doesn't seem like there's any middle ground in that decision and either stance seems relatively untenable.
		Ultimately, though, this is the problem with trying to ban legal marriage from applying to a group of people.
		There's simply no way to ban it, except in name alone, because any amendment that says a law can't confer ANY of the "legal incidents" is likely to be an abject failure.
	www.notgeniuses.com /archives/000376.html (680 words)

	Basel Action Network (BAN)
		BAN is based in Seattle, USA and conducts both domestic (US) and international programs to halt toxic trade – an ugly form of trade in toxic wastes, toxic products and toxic technologies, that are exported from rich to poorer countries.
		In 1995, the Basel Ban was turned into a proposed amendment which when ratified (see Deposit Box) by the requisite number of Parties will enter into force and will become international law.
		BAN works to counter the regressive efforts of these few countries and to once and for all close the sad chapter of toxic colonialism.
	www.ban.org (805 words)

	Country Life : Country rural (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Banning of field sports, such asfoxhunting, could furthermore lead job losses, the collapse of the rural economy, and a heavier tax burden on the population as a whole to pay for the upkeep of places such as wetlands and moors, states the report.
		Campaigners fighting to overturn the law banning hunting with dogs in Scotland were delivered a blow yesterday when the Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled to dismiss the legal challenge to the Act.
		Judge Lord Nimmo Smith stated he was not convinced that there would be a loss of livelihoods or homes as a result of the ban, nor did he allow that hounds would have to be put down as a result of the Act.
	www.countrylife.co.uk /home_rural_news_pursuits.php (6957 words)

	Jackson Lewis - New York's Indoor Smoking Ban Withstands First Legal Challenge
		New York State's ban on smoking in most workplaces, including bars, restaurants, and company cars and vans, is still standing after a legal challenge by the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Owners Association.
		Challenging the law on constitutional and preemption grounds, the association claimed the wording is too vague, and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration already regulates the air quality in indoor workplaces.
		The statewide smoking ban was enacted March 26 and went into effect July 24, 2003.
	www.jacksonlewis.com /legalupdates/article.cfm?aid=487 (296 words)

	California's SUV Ban - The Golden State has outlawed big SUVs on many of its roads but doesn't seem to know it. By Andy ...
		I discovered this secret ban after noticing the signs at both ends of my narrow Los Angeles-area street (a favorite cut-through route for drivers hoping to avoid tie-ups on bigger roads).
		One L.A. city council member, Janice Hahn (the sister of L.A. Mayor James Hahn), recently proposed that fines for breaking this law be hiked from $50 for a first offense and $100 for a second to $250 and $1,000, respectively.
		I suspect the biggest impediment to enforcing these bans is political will—SUVs are wildly popular, and it will take brave city and state officials to challenge the right of residents to use their own streets.
	www.slate.com /id/2104755 (2447 words)

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