Illinois was the first US state with a comprehensive environmental protection act.

"This legislation should be called the corporate and medical wrongdoer's protection act," she said.

But stranger still is that these actions were not really out of character with the impact of the protection act.

The protection act has helped institutionalize deference to this kind of assertion.

Moreover, the legislation would, unfairly, constitute an incumbents' protection act.

We'll make common sense reforms, but the minute this polluter's protection act hits my desk, I will veto it.

Tennessee finally passed a smokers' protection act in 1990, but it was a watered-down version of the original proposal.

The previous law we called the slumlord's protection act.

It has the official short title: the Shareholder Protection Act.

In 1893, he helped draft a Children's Protection Act.