Blainey v. Ontario Hockey Association

•  Nicaragua v. United States

  The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America was a 1986 case of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in which the ICJ ruled in favor of Nicaragua and against the United States and awarded reparations to Nicaragua. The ICJ held that the U.S. had violated international law by supporting Contra guerrillas in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government and by mining Nicaragua's harbors.

  

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•  Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act

  The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is a U.S. Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). It requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency healthcare treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. There are no reimbursement provisions.

  

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•  Tax Reform Act of 1986

  The U.S. Congress passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA) to simplify the income tax code, broaden the tax base and eliminate many tax shelters and other preferences. Referred to as the second of the two "Reagan tax cuts" (the Kemp-Roth Tax Cut of 1981 being the first), the bill was also officially sponsored by Democrats, Richard Gephardt of Missouri in the House of Representatives and Bill Bradley of New Jersey in the Senate.

  

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•  R. v. Oakes

  R. v. Oakes [1986] 1 S.C.R. 103 is a case decided by the Supreme Court of Canada which established the famous Oakes test, an analysis of the limitations clause (Section 1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that allows reasonable limitations on rights and freedoms through legislation if it can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

  

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•  RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd.

  RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd. , [1986] 2 S.C.R. 573, is the seminal Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms decision that states that the Charter applies to governmental action, and to the common law except where matters are solely between private parties. Nevertheless, judges should interpret the common law in the light of the Charter.

  

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•  Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

  The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is a law passed by the United States Congress in 1984 intended to reduce cracking of computer systems and to address federal computer-related offenses. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (codified as 18 U.S.C. § 1030 governs cases with a compelling federal interest, where computers of the federal government or certain financial institutions are involved, where the crime itself is interstate in nature, or computers used in interstate and foreign commerce.

  

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•  Bowers v. Hardwick

  Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), was a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law that criminalized oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuals. Seventeen years later the Supreme Court directly overruled Bowers in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), and held that such laws are unconstitutional. In overruling Bowers v.

  

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•  Australia Act 1986

  The Australia Act 1986 is the name given to a pair of two separate but related pieces of legislation: one an Act of the Parliament of Australia (No. 142 of 1985), the other an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (c.2 1986). These Acts eliminated the remaining associations between the laws and judiciary of Australia and their counterparts in the United Kingdom.

  

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•  Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985

  The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (or COBRA) is a law passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Reagan that, among other things, mandates an insurance program giving some employees the ability to continue health insurance coverage after leaving employment. COBRA includes amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

  

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•  Goldwater-Nichols Act

  

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•  Piper oilfield

  The Piper oilfield is a substantial North Sea oilfield. Oil extracted from it is piped to Scotland, where it is refined at a purpose built refinery on the island of Flotta, in the Orkney Islands. This field was once drilled by Piper Alpha, site of one of the world's worst oil platform disasters in terms of lives lost and petroleum spilled.

  

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•  Polecat

  Polecat may refer to: One of several species of weasel: Marbled Polecat Steppe Polecat Striped Polecat European Polecat Skunks Civets, mostly nocturnal mammals found in Africa, Asia, and the East Indies The Polecats, a 1980s British neo-rockabilly band Polecat (band), a 1990s American band Lockheed Martin Polecat, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Lineman (occupation), sometimes colloquially referred to as "polecats" Typical Barbershop Songs, a shared catalogue of a capella music

  

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•  Poitín

  Poitín or Poteen (IPA, also potcheen) is a traditional Irish distilled, highly alcoholic beverage. Poitín was traditionally distilled in a small pot still and the term is a diminutive of the Irish word pota, meaning "pot". Traditionally distilled from malted barley grain or potatoes, it is one of the strongest alcoholic beverages in the world, and for centuries was classified as illegal in Ireland.

  

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•  Jerseyville, Il

  

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