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  • The McCarran Amendment, 43 U.S.C. § 666 (1952) is a federal law enacted by the United States Congress in 1952 which waives the United States' sovereign...
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  • Act, 1952 US law McCarran Committee, created 1950 to deal with internal security McCarran Amendment, 1952 U.S. law on water rights McCarren Park, in Brooklyn...
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    States) 82–414, 66 Stat. 163, enacted June 27, 1952), also known as the McCarran–Walter Act, codified under Title 8 of the United States Code (8 U.S.C....
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    Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, the McCarran Act after its principal sponsor Sen. Pat McCarran (D-Nevada), or the Concentration Camp Law, is...
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    were convicted. The McCarran Internal Security Act, which became law in 1950, has been described by scholar Ellen Schrecker as "the McCarthy era's only important...
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  • States, water scarcity was (and remains) a critical problem. The McCarran Amendment, 43 U.S.C. § 666, was a statute enacted by United States Congress...
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  • 1911. Zachary Clopton & Steven E. Art, "The Meaning of the Seventeenth Amendment and a Century of State Defiance" Archived April 4, 2017, at the Wayback...
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  • the House of Representatives. Patrick McCarran (Nevada Democratic Senator), introduced the McCarran Amendment in 1952 as part of the Department of Justice's...
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  • to establish the legal parameters of their water access. Under the McCarran Amendment, these rights must be defined and quantified under federal law in...
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  • right claims after January 1, 1962. In 1952, Congress enacted the McCarran Amendment, which permitted the federal government to waive its sovereign immunity...
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  • Birthright citizenship in the United States (category Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution)
    legitimize the child declaring paternity before it reached majority.: 420  The McCarran–Walter Act of 1952 recognized that previous nationality laws had discriminated...
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  • which was illegal under the McCarran Act. Robel appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court. The Court found the McCarran Internal Security Act violates...
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  • certiorari to determine whether the new law was in compliance with the McCarran Amendment of 1952, which waived federal sovereign immunity in water issues and...
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    are often listed under Title 18. In 1950, during the McCarthy Period, Congress passed the McCarran Internal Security Act over President Harry S. Truman's...
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  • state-court jurisdiction over indigenous water rights were removed by the McCarran Amendment. This piece of legislation allowed state courts jurisdiction to determine...
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  • the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, these exclusions—along with all prior exclusions, such as those for anarchists—were recodified. The McCarran-Walter Act...
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    States Constitution and by federal and state laws. Several constitutional amendments (the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-sixth specifically) require that...
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  • (1993) Risk Retention Amendments of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-563, 100 Stat. 3170 Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance and the McCarran-Ferguson Act Siegelman...
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  • 1952 All Americans with Asian ancestry are allowed to vote through the McCarran Walter Act. 1954 Native Americans living on reservations earn the right...
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    flights from Love Field using McDonnell Douglas DC-9s refitted with 56 seats, the maximum allowed under the Wright Amendment. However, the USDOT ruled in...
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