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Overview of Federal Hate Crime Laws
Congressional Research Service · 2022-04-01 · Reports · 33,223 words · PDF available
Incidents such as the fatal shootings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015, the killing of a counter-protester at the 2017 “Unite the Right Rally” in Cha...
Surprise Billing: Independent Dispute Resolution Process
Congressional Research Service · 2022-04-01 · Resources · 1,827 words · PDF available
This In Focus summarizes statute and interim final rule (IFR) regulations to describe the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process available to insurers and out-of-network providers in certain sur...
Federal Civil Action for Disclosure of Intimate Images: Free Speech Considerations
Congressional Research Service · 2022-04-01 · Posts · 1,929 words · PDF available
On March 15, 2022, Congress authorized a federal civil claim relating to the disclosure of intimate images as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022. The new cause of action, which takes ef...
An Economic Perspective on Wealth Taxes
Congressional Research Service · 2022-04-01 · Resources · 1,634 words · PDF available
The idea of imposing a tax on individual wealth has appeared in policy debates with increasing frequency. Proponents of a wealth tax have primarily argued that such a tax would achieve three objective...