be written. And Ford Foundation funded six really talented lawyers and we were there to help write these statutes . And the strength that NRDC brought to the environmental movement was that we were able to write these statutes and then we were able to get the rules and regulationsthat we used to enforce those statutes and make them strong.
We're saying there's a pattern here where people of color don't get to live as long or aren't as safe in certain circumstances, government statutes and things like that-- so it can speak to a sovereign status rather than a cultural group.
Now when she walked up to the statute , she ran her finger along those cracks and they were sharp; they'd been recently made. Ancient statutes with ancient breaks wear down over time and so they wouldn't be sharp breaks like that. Well, all of these things were a clear indication that this statute had been recently found and judging by the fact that it was an acrolith, it must have been found in southern Italy
imagine many of you work, which is the communications space. So there are statutes , there are regulations, and those are good when it comes to accommodating. But I actually think that what's more important for us to get the significance of this evangelized throughout organizations as large
And this has always troubled me enormously, because I remember all of this. There are statutes that say that a state must have a mechanism whereby new evidence of innocence
Talk a little bit about that. It wasn't statutes being passed.
regulate fusion. And this gets into a little bit of the details, but the way the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulates nuclear things in the United States is in these different sets of statutes . And nuclear is in these different sets of statutes . And nuclear reactors are regulated under something called Part 50. And there's a lot of variety of the regulatory language around that, but most of it is to handle special nuclear materials, uranium and plutonium. But
and continues to be the law in too many situations where there are girls behind bars. And they are not protected from statutes against being shackled. And it's really more complex.
Don't be that guy or that gal. So those are the interesting art theft statutes that have been around for a long time. The newest one is the second one up there, called the Theft of Major Artwork Statute .
This is the underlying ethos of the entire General Data Protection Regulation. It's the idea behind statutes that you are probably very familiar with like the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or even HIPAA has a sense of follow the Fair Information Practices.
such an important thing uh for everyone to have some kind of protection against discrimination on the job there are ways that some of the existing statutes are being uh litigated um these issues are being litigated under current existing laws and um trying to see whether they
were tolerant of that lifestyle, then it became a majority sentiment. Then the courts invalidated those states statutes , invalidated federal laws that discriminated. And one of the things that I've seen in our work is that we're working all these different channels.
statutes . And the strength that NRDC brought to the environmental movement was that we were able to write these statutes and then we were able to get the rules and regulationsthat we used to enforce those statutes and make them strong. And not only did we work on the rules and regulations, but then, immediately, the industrial sector came in and tried to get an advantage under the rules and regulations, and we then
are the there things that the speaker would like to be doing or or that you personally would like to see the house doing that um run up against statutes or policies or practices that you know we we um that basically stop you from doing things you'd like to be able to do online well this year we actually had a
The Navy's plan was to put three women in props and three women in helicopters. We were not allowed in jets because of the Federal statutes in place at the time that prohibited women flying in combat aircraft, and all jets were considered combat. I really had no preference and thought helo sounded like a lot of fun, but my friend, Rosemary, had no intention of letting the Navy assign her to helicopters.
But that's your public resource. Remember when I told you about the cases-- those statutes ?
So every kid in care has these rights. Additionally, there are federal statutes that provide protection for discrimination. So on the juvenile justice side, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act prohibits discrimination based on sex.
But that's your public resource. Well, the elements of those statutes have to be part of the complaint.
even though we had just abolished slavery and passed these incredible constitutional amendments and statutes .
You can see that just a small number of states had these statutes in 1985.
And that Congress ought to be obliged to stay away from areas such as this and from passing statutes such as this.
And under not just foreign law but also American law, knowingly buying something that had been looted from a country that had a patrimony law like Italy's that said, "Objects in the ground belong to the state," doing that under American law was a violation of the criminal statutes and could end up getting the Getty into a lot of trouble. And as an attorney, Harold Williams was keenly aware of this and concerned about it.
These same rules and regulations govern how we deal with the environment, and I can honestly say NRDC owns these laws. And the people that are doing the work at NRDC, a lot of them are still with us and they have continued to know these laws and continued to protect these statutes . So, why were we different? Because nobody else had this legal team. We quickly added
Because if anything that is fraudulent-- in other words, if there's something in there that's not true-- and you depend upon that to make the purchase and it turns out that what you bought wasn't real, you have the protection of wire fraud and mail fraud statutes . OK, so be careful.
And when we were all done, even though it was a difficult team to swallow, they obviously were very, very talented and when we got started, it was the beginning of the modern environmental movement. The first environmental laws were being written: the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, NEEPA, and then all of the other statutes . All of this took place very, very quickly after NRDC was started on January 2nd, 1970.
And if you look at the limestone body of the statute you'll see that there are two prominent break points: one in the waist and another at the knees. Now when she walked up to the statute , she ran her finger along those cracks and they were sharp; they'd been recently made. Ancient statutes with ancient breaks wear down over time and so they wouldn't be sharp breaks like that.