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Participants noted that with increased globalization of businesses' operations and the need for harmonization of accounting and auditing standards, as well as the need for preemptive measures, there may be more federal involvement such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Finding his woods "infested" with an endangered species, the red-cockaded woodpecker, a North Carolina landowner launched a preemptive strike.
No further word yet from USAT , which broke the preemptive strike story last week.
The prior Executive Order contained a similar requirement now found at Section 3(b)(2)(A) of the newly effective Order requiring that the preemptive effect of the rule be specified.
Since Hawaii's 1993 decision, 29 states have passed preemptive laws saying they would not accept gay marriages from other states.