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Federal courts are desirable venues for victims because of their high damage awards and relatively lax statutes of limitations, but the court found the victims' claims outside the constitutional scope of its jurisdiction.
But the same is true of existing policies promoting free contraception, and of laws like the Hyde Amendment, which denies Medicaid funding for abortions--not to mention the still extant statutes making it a crime to commit statutory rape (sex with a consenting minor), fornication (premarital sex), and adultery.
The Commission did not identify any other statutes or executive orders imposing requirements relevant to this Report and Order.
Moreover, the failure to comply with federal and state employment statutes relating to minimum wages, overtime rates, and child labor, uncovered in periodic enforcement forays, have contributed to the decline of this sector.
4 These statutes are laws that comprise the letter mail monopoly.