Talk:Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010

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Was it repealed or something? edit

Latest comment: 9 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The page presently says that the Act "was a law that addressed the banning of depictions of cruelty to animals . . . ." Was the Act repealed? If not, why is the past tense used, repeatedly? Is the law no longer in force or on the books?

A quick perusal of the editing history of this page suggests that the use of the imperfect tense in the present version of the page was inadvertent, and is an artifact of earlier versions that referred to the bill that became the law rather than to the law itself. Now that the bill has become law, the present tense is called for. On that assumption, I shall make the change myself momentarily.

I shall also say "bans" instead of "addresses the banning of". If "bans" is not accurate, than someone who knows more than I do should replace "bans" with whatever language the statute used to get around the Supreme Court's 1999 ruling that struck down the present Act's predecessor.

2001:5B0:24FF:3CF0:0:0:0:2F (talk) 13:31, 15 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

I have reverted your good faith changes. I am not a lawyer, but I believe my understanding of this is generally correct.

The subject law did not ban anything. Upon enactment, it amended 18 U.S. 48. See section 3 here. As understand it, upon enactment of the public laws mentioned in this article, the text of the statute at 18 U.S.C. § 48 was amended as described in the laws. It is the statute which does the banning, not the laws which put the statute into effect or which amend it.

Somebody please correct this if I've got it wrong. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:57, 15 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

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