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Whoever knowingly recruits, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains by any means, any person for labor or services in violation of this chapter shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If death results from the violation of this section, or if the violation includes kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or the attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, the defendant shall be fined under this title or impriso...| LII / Legal Information Institute
(a) Whoever knowingly provides or obtains the labor or services of a person by any one of, or by any combination of, the following means—| LII / Legal Information Institute
Historical and Revision NotesBased on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 423, 446 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §§ 248, 271, 35 Stat. 1139, 1142).| LII / Legal Information Institute
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An act may refer to only a portion of a Public Law. The tables below are for the entire Public Law.| LII / Legal Information Institute
An act may refer to only a portion of a Public Law. The tables below are for the entire Public Law.| LII / Legal Information Institute
(5) Allocation of unutilized limitation(A) In generalAny unutilized national megawatt capacity limitation shall be allocated by the Secretary under paragraph (3) as rapidly as is practicable after December 31, 2020—| LII / Legal Information Institute
Amendments1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–647, § 1018(d)(5)(E), substituted “distribution (not in complete liquidation) with respect to its stock” for “distribution, with respect to its stock,”.| LII / Legal Information Institute
(a) Nonrecognition of gain or loss from exchanges solely in kind| LII / Legal Information Institute
§ 1.170A-17 Qualified appraisal and qualified appraiser.| LII / Legal Information Institute
(A) In generalAny alien—(i)| LII / Legal Information Institute
(a) It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless—(1)| LII / Legal Information Institute
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Delegation of Authority Under Section 1230 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024Memorandum of President of the United States, Feb. 16, 2024, 89 F.R. 13261, provided:| LII / Legal Information Institute
(d) Civil actions arising out of use of counterfeit marks(1)| LII / Legal Information Institute
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101–131, § 2(b), amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “The term ‘flag of the United States’ as used in this section, shall include any flag, standard colors, ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, color, or ensign of the United States of America, or...| LII / Legal Information Institute
by the defendant’s wrongful act, the defendant is responsible for the resulting harm, no matter how severe. This reflects the principle that a defendant must “take the victim as they find them.”| LII / Legal Information Institute
(15) The term “immigrant” means every alien except an alien who is within one of the following classes of nonimmigrant aliens—(A)| LII / Legal Information Institute
Irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILIT) allow individuals to ensure the benefits from a life insurance policy can avoid estate taxes and follow the interests of insured. ILITs must be irrevocable, meaning the insured cannot change or undue the trust after its creation. This allows the premiums from the life insurance policy to avoid estate taxes. If the policy were not created under an ILIT, any insurance benefits plus other assets of the insured above the applicable exclusion amount could t...| LII / Legal Information Institute
Intestacy is the state of dying without a will. If a person dies without a will they are said to have “died intestate.” The estate of a person who has died intestate goes through probate court. The state’s intestacy rules will determine who will inherit the decedent’s assets. Typically, the takers are relatives of the decedent. In order to take under intestacy, the person must survive the decedent.| LII / Legal Information Institute
, which prohibit landlords from evicting or otherwise punishing tenants for reporting housing code violations. Supporters argue that the implied warranty of habitability protects tenants, particularly those with limited financial means, from unsafe or unhealthy housing. Critics contend that it increases costs for landlords, may reduce the supply of affordable housing, and in some cases incentivizes landlords to abandon older properties where compliance costs exceed rental income.| LII / Legal Information Institute
50 U.S. Code Chapter 33 - WAR POWERS RESOLUTION| LII / Legal Information Institute
(1) ProhibitionsIt shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, or any person outside the United States if the recipient is within the United States—(A) to make any call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using any automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice—| LII / Legal Information Institute
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Amendments2021—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 117–59 added subsec. (c).| LII / Legal Information Institute
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such person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 10 years or more than life and if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of such substance shall be not less than 20 years or more than life, a fine not to exceed the greater of that authorized in accordance with the provisions of title 18 or $10,000,000 if the defendant is an individual or $50,000,000 if the defendant is other than an individual, or both. If any person commits such a violation af...| LII / Legal Information Institute
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A plaintiff who suffers damages may be able to recover from manufacturing defects based on strict liability, negligence, or based upon a warranty theory. Each method requires proving the defect actually caused the damages claimed. In order to prove a manufacturing defect for strict liability, a plaintiff must show that the product received did not follow the manufacturer’s design and the defect occurred before leaving the control of the manufacturer. Manufacturing defects by way of negligen...| LII / Legal Information Institute
A trap and trace device is a device or process that records the sources of incoming signals to a specific phone or computer. This is often used by law enforcement as the advanced counterpart of Caller ID. A trap and trace device identifies the phone numbers or Internet addresses of incoming signals, but does not include substantive information transmitted by those signals.| LII / Legal Information Institute
the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws. Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States or, in the case of the District of Columbia, through the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia.| LII / Legal Information Institute
(b) ConstructionAs used in subsection (a), the term “discriminate against a qualified individual on the basis of disability” includes—(1)| LII / Legal Information Institute
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(2) In-office ancillary servicesIn the case of services (other than durable medical equipment (excluding infusion pumps) and parenteral and enteral nutrients, equipment, and supplies)—(A) that are furnished—| LII / Legal Information Institute
(3) Use of fundsActivities supported by awards under this subsection may include—(A)| LII / Legal Information Institute
This action was begun in the circuit court of the United States for the Northern district of Illinois, June 15, 1886, on which day the plaintiffs filed their declaration, as follows: 'George A. Bowman, a citizen of the state of Nebraska, and Fred. W. Bowman, a citizen of the state of Iowa, copartners, doing business under the name, firm, and style of Bowman Bros., at the city of Marshalltown, state of Iowa, plaintiffs in this suit, by Blum & Blum, their attorneys, complain of the Chicago and ...| LII / Legal Information Institute
Congress is given power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. To that end it may, by all necessary and proper laws, secure to inventors, for limited times, the exclusive right to their inventions. That power has been exerted in the various statutes prescribing the terms and conditions upon which letters-patent may be obtained. It is true that letters-patent, pursuing the words of the statute, do, in terms, grant to the inventor, his heirs and assigns, the exclusive right to ...| LII / Legal Information Institute
ERROR to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri.| LII / Legal Information Institute
THESE cases come here by appeal,—the former from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, the latter from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana.| LII / Legal Information Institute
ERROR to the Supreme Court of Missouri.| LII / Legal Information Institute
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In 1875 the legislature of the state of Michigan passed an act relating to the sale of liquors in that state to be shipped into the state by persons not residing therein, known as act No. 226 of the Session Laws of 1875, of which the following is a copy: 'An act to impose a tax on the business of selling spirituous and intoxicating, malt, brewed, and fermented liquors in the state of Michigan, to be shipped from without this state.| LII / Legal Information Institute
The ordinance was adopted to regulate the establishment and maintenance of public laundries and wash-houses within certain limits of the city and county of San Francisco. It recited that the indiscriminate establishment of such laundries and wash-houses, where clothes and other articles were cleansed for hire, endangered the public health and public safety, prejudiced the wellbeing and comfort of the community, and depreciated the value of property in their neighborhood. It then ordained, pur...| LII / Legal Information Institute
This was a suit in equity brought by Robert C. Phillips, Eugene Robinson, and Jesse H. Farwell, who were the exclusive licensees of Phillips for the state of Michigan, to restrain the defendant, the city of Detroit, from infringing letters patent granted to Phillips, December 5, 1871, for 'a new and useful improvement in street and other highway pavements.' The specification and claim of the patent were as follows: 'My improvement consists mainly in the use of wood of any suitable kind in its...| LII / Legal Information Institute
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Section 4 of an act of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1827, chapter 162, entitled 'An Act to appoint State wharfingers in the city of Baltimore, and to authorize the collection of wharfage in certain cases in said city' (Maryland Code of Public Local Laws, art. 4, sect. 945), provides as follows:——| LII / Legal Information Institute
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(d) International treaties, conventions, and protocols requiring control; procedures respecting changes in drug schedules of Convention on Psychotropic Substances(1)| LII / Legal Information Institute
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§ 27.16 Network access requirements for Block C in the 746-757 and 776-787 MHz bands.| LII / Legal Information Institute
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The following provisions apply, in the circumstances set out, to disclosure of a communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work-product protection.| LII / Legal Information Institute
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Unless the court orders otherwise, the parties may stipulate that:| LII / Legal Information Institute
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1974—Pub. L. 93–528 substituted “a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one million dollars if a corporation, or, if any other person, one hundred thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding three years” for “a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year”.| LII / Legal Information Institute
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General ProvisionsSection 1. Policy. (a) Each employee of the executive branch of the Federal Government has the right, freely and without fear of penalty or reprisal, to form, join, and assist a labor organization or to refrain from any such activity, and each employee shall be protected in the exercise of this right. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Order, the right to assist a labor organization extends to participation in the management of the organization and acting for the...| LII / Legal Information Institute
For the purpose of this subchapter—(1) “agency” means each authority of the Government of the United States, whether or not it is within or subject to review by another agency, but does not include—| LII / Legal Information Institute
As used in this subchapter—(1) the term “agency” means any executive department, military department, Government corporation, Government controlled corporation, or other establishment in the executive branch of the Government (including the Executive Office of the President), or any independent regulatory agency, but does not include—| LII / Legal Information Institute
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The denial by some employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by some employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce by (a) impairing the efficiency, safety, or operation of the instrumentalities of commerce; (b) occurring in the current of commerce; (c) materially affecting, restraining, or controlling the flow of ...| LII / Legal Information Institute
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For the purposes of this subchapter—(a)| LII / Legal Information Institute
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(C) at least 60 percent of the amount of the total assets of which (at the close of the taxable year) consists of—(i)| LII / Legal Information Institute
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(1) In general.—Subject to paragraph (2), any person who—(A)| LII / Legal Information Institute
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2021—Pub. L. 117–81 substituted “Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force” for “Army and Air Force” in section catchline, and in text substituted “Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps,” for “Army or” and inserted “, or the Space Force” after “Air Force”.| LII / Legal Information Institute
Amendments2016—Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XII, § 1241(a)(1), (o)(2), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2497, 2512, renumbered chapter 15 of this title “INSURRECTION” as chapter 13, redesignated item 331 “Federal aid for State governments” as item 251, redesignated item 332 “Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority” as item 252, redesignated item 333 “Interference with State and Federal law” as item 253, redesignated item 334 “Proclamation to disperse”...| LII / Legal Information Institute
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This was an application for a writ of habeas corpus made to the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kansas by Charles A. Rahrer, who alleged in his petition that he was illegally and wrongfully restrained of his liberty by John M. Wilkerson, sheriff of Shawnee county, Kan., in violation of the constitution of the United States. The writ was issued, and, return having been made thereto, the cause was heard on the following agreed statement of facst: 'It is understood and agr...| LII / Legal Information Institute
This is a bill in equity filed in the circuit court of the United States in and for the Northern district of Illinois by Jessie Norton Torrence Magoun, a resident and citizen of New York, against the trust company, as executor of, and trustee under, the last will and testament of Joseph T. Torrence, deceased, and the county treasurer of Cook county, Ill., both residents and citizens of Illinois, to remove a cloud from the real estate devised by said decedent to the complainant, and to enjoin ...| LII / Legal Information Institute
Christiana Leisy, Edward Leisy, Lena and Albert Leisy, composing the firm of Gus. Leisy & Co., citizens of Illinois, brought their action of replevin against A. J. Hardin, the duly elected and qualified marshal of the city of Keokuk, Iowa, and ex officio constable of Jackson township, Lee county, Iowa, in the superior court of Keokuk, in said county, to recover 122 one-quarter barrels of beer, 171 one-eighth barrels of beer, and 11 sealed cases of beer, which had been seized by him in a proce...| LII / Legal Information Institute
This was an action brought in 1886 in a justice's court in Norfolk, state of Virginia, by Wright, the defendant in error, against the plaintiffs in error, R. P. Voight & Co., to recover $15 for fees alleged to be due to the plaintiff for inspection of flour. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff, and an appeal taken to the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, by which court the judgment was affirmed. This being the highest court of the state in which a decision in the suit could be had...| LII / Legal Information Institute