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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Today in Dual Credit - Laws at issue in assigned court cases.

For dual credit this week - a look at some of the laws at issue in the court cases I assigned.


- Voting Rights Act of 1965:

- The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.

- The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.

- The Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

- Defense of Marriage Act of 1996.

- Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000.

- Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.

- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

- Stolen Valor Act of 2013.

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