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..... u.s.c. 7545(c)(2)(b) (1976 ed., supp. iii). in the federal water pollution control act amendments of 1972, congress directed the administrator to consider "the total cost of application of technology in relation to the effluent reduction benefits to be achieved from such application." 33 u.s.c. 1314(b ..... exposure and suggested implementation of work practices, engineering controls, medical surveillance, and monitoring to decrease exposure to the recommended level. [ footnote 20 ] the act specifies an informal rulemaking procedure to accompany the promulgation of occupational safety and health standards. see 29 u.s.c. 655(b)(2), (3), (4). [ footnote ..... over 14 days. public participation was widespread, involving representatives from industry and the workforce, scientists, economists, industrial hygienists, and many others. by the time the informal rulemaking procedure had terminated, osha had received 263 comments and 109 notices of intent to appear at the hearings. 43 fed.reg. 27351, col. 2 .....
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..... the clerk of court s case file) (233.1 million hosts as of jan. 2004). it is reasonable to assume that other technological developments important to the first amendment analysis have also occurred during that time. more and better filtering alternatives may exist than when the district court entered its findings. indeed ..... 824. ( a court should not assume a plausible, less restrictive alternative would be ineffective; and a court should not presume parents, given full information, will fail to act ). in enacting copa, congress said its goal was to prevent the widespread availability of the internet from providing opportunities for minors to access materials ..... indeed, the american civil liberties union (aclu), one of the respondents here, told congress that filtering software block[s] out valuable and protected information, such as information about the quaker religion, and web sites including those of the american association of university women, the aids quilt, the town hall political site .....
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..... forty percent of american households continue to rely on over-the-air signals for television programming. despite the growing importance of cable television and alternative technologies, "'broadcasting is demonstrably a principal source of information and entertainment for a great part of the nation's population.'" turner, supra, at 663 (quoting united states v. southwestern cable co., ..... necessary to further those interests. we answer both questions in the affirmative, and conclude the must-carry provisions are consistent with the first amendment. i an outline of the cable act, congress' purposes in adopting it, and the facts of the case are set out in detail in our first opinion, see turner ..... is a final argument made by appellants that we do not reach. appellant time warner entertainment raises in its brief a separate first amendment challenge to a subsection of the cable act, 47 u. s. c. 534(c), that requires carriage on unfilled must-carry channels of low power broadcast stations if the .....
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..... including terrestrial- and satellite-based wireless networks, are also emerging. the communications act of 1934, as amended by the telecommunications act of 1996, defines two categories of entities relevant here. information service providers those offering a capability for [processing] information via telecommunications, 47 u. s. c. 153(20) are subject to ..... providing a physical connection, but also by offering consumers the ability to translate raw data into information they may both view on their own computers and transmit to others connected to the internet. technological limitations of local telephone wires, however, retard the speed at which internet data may be ..... ); p. huber, m. kellogg, & j. thorne, federal telecommunications law 988 (2d ed. 1999) (hereinafter huber); 345 f. 3d, at 1123 1124. technological limitations of local telephone wires, however, retard the speed at which data from the internet may be transmitted through end users dial-up connections. dial-up connections are .....
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..... would be checked. id ., at 879. so long as the retaliators present evidence barely sufficient to establish probable cause and persuade a prosecutor to act on their thin information, they could accomplish their mission cost free. their victim, on the other hand, would incur not only the costs entailed in mounting a defense ..... government research officers had reservations about the postal service s zip + 4 policy and its intended reliance on single-line readers. critics maligned single-line scanning technology, objected to the foreign sources of single-line scanners, decried the burden of remembering the four extra numbers,[ footnote 1 ] and echoed the conclusion ..... the absence of probable cause for pressing the underlying criminal charges. pp. 5 15. (a) as a general matter, this court has held that the first amendment prohibits government officials from subjecting an individual to retaliatory actions, including criminal prosecutions, for speaking out. crawford-el v. britton, 523 u. s. 574 , .....
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..... the intelligence community with additional authority to meet the challenges of modern technology and international terrorism. id., at 315a 318a, 331a 333a, 398a; see id., at 262a, 277a 279a, 287a. when congress enacted the fisa amendments act of 2008 (fisa amendments act), 122stat. 2436, it left much of fisa intact, but it ..... communicate electronically (e.g., by telephone or e-mail) with foreigners located abroad; and (3) that in these communications they exchange foreign intelligence information as the act defines it. id., at 334a 375a. iii several considerations, based upon the record along with commonsense inferences, convince me that there is a very ..... february 26, 2013 section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978 (fisa), 50 u. s. c. 1881a, added by the fisa amendments act of 2008, permits the attorney general and the director of national intelligence to acquire foreign intelligence information by jointly authorizing the surveillance of individuals who are not united .....
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..... with an opportunity page 455 u. s. 45 to expand its business into other areas of the city, petitioner, in may, 1979, informed the city council that it planned such an expansion. but the new technology offered opportunities to potential competitors, as well, and in july, 1979, one of them, the newly formed boulder communications co. (bcc ..... ] the council reached this conclusion despite bcc's statement to the contrary, see n 5, supra. [ footnote 9 ] 26 stat. 209, as amended, 15 u.s.c. 1. section 1 of the sherman act provides in pertinent part that "[e]very contract, combination . . . or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states . . ..... no place for sovereign cities. here, the direct delegation of powers to the city through the home rule amendment to the colorado constitution does not render the cable television moratorium ordinance an "act of government" performed by the city acting as the state in local matters, so as to meet parker's "state action" criterion. pp. .....
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..... to do the act until the order was made. but be it so. had the clerk authority to ..... the clerk, of his own authority, and that the clerk was authorized to amend his own certificate and record at any time. it would be difficult to maintain that the second certificate, or amendment as it is called, could rightfully be regarded as the clerk's own act, independent of the order of the county court, it appearing that he refused ..... said certificate was directed to be amended, so as to read as follows, to-wit:" " woodford county, sct. september 11, 1813" " this day the within named james elliott and sarah g. elliott, his wife, appeared before me, the clerk of the court of the county aforesaid, and acknowledged the within indenture to be their act and deed, and the said .....
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..... the streets. prohibition of such conduct would not abridge the constitutional liberty, since such activity bears no necessary relationship to the freedom to speak, write, print or distribute information or opinion." cantwell v. connecticut, 310 u. s. 296 , 310 u. s. 306 -307: "even the exercise of religion may be at some ..... the supreme court refused to determine whether religious meetings could be excluded from all parks at all times. that has not been decided in this appeal. informed witnesses at this trial, without contradiction, testified that no public religious services were ever licensed in any portsmouth park. there was no allocation of parks between ..... free from improper or inappropriate considerations and from unfair discrimination" is a command that it act reasonably, not page 345 u. s. 425 capriciously or arbitrarily. but even a reasonable regulation of the right to free speech is not compatible with the first amendment. [ footnote 4/1 ] of course, a state court deny the use .....
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..... 201.20. judicatory body, and it may use the (3) the public utility holding company u.s.c. 78u(b); public util- information gathered through inves- act of 1935 empowers the commission to ity holding company act of tigative proceedings to initiate "investigate any facts, conditions, prac- 1935, 49 stat. 831, 15 u.s.c. "administrative proceedings looking ..... to constitutional page 363 u. s. 494 principles could not question. at the bottom of this controversy is the right to vote, protected by the fifteenth amendment. that amendment withholds power from either the states or the united states to deny or abridge the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of ..... 123 ; greene v. mcelroy, 360 u. s. 474 , distinguished. pp. 363 u. s. 440 -452. 3. such rules of procedure do not violate the sixth amendment, since that amendment is specifically limited to "criminal prosecutions," and the proceedings of the commission do not fall in that category. p. 363 u. s. 440 n. 16. page 363 u. .....
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