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Question | Answer |
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Interstate Commerce Act | 1887 made railroads not able to change rates w/ out telling the public |
Sherman Anti-Trust Act | 1890 prohibits trusts Affects: Companies |
Sarbanes-Oxley Act | Passed June 2002 protects investors from fraud accounting accounts by corporations inproves financial disclosures |
Clayton Act | 1914- makes it illegal to change different prices to different wholesale customers Affects:Manufactuers |
Wheeler-Lea Act | 1938 gives juristiction over false or misleading advertising informs consumers |
Food and Drug Administration | 1938 bans impure, improperly labled, falsely gaurenteed food, cosmetics and drugs Affects: Manufacturers |
Consumer Product Safety Commission | 1972 Est. Min product safety standards on priducts |
Truth and Lending Act | 1968 creditors have to let the consumer know what they are being charged for intrest & financial charges |
Equal Credit Opportunity Act | created 1975 began in 1968 effects consumers finance and by creditors having to tell them intrest charges |
National Enviorment Policy Act | 1968 protect human health safe guard air water & land |
Clean Air Act | 1970 all americans should have clean air targeting major polution |
Toxic Substance Control Act | 1992 affects pulbic by ensuring chemicals are safe |
Clean Water Act | 1977 goves epa athority to set standards of pollutants put into bodies of water Affects: Enviorment |
Fair Packaging and Labling Act | 1966 ensures product name place of buisness manufact. & net quantity |
Title VII Civil Rights Act | 1964 companies cannot discriminate due to race color, religon, sex or national origin |
Age Discrimination in Emplowment Act | 19 |