I just haven't understood since these announcements began how among virtually every single US 121 carrier's legal department, no one balked at the term "federal law". The day the announcement was published and mandated to be read by us, I laughed at the use (3 times) of "federal law". It isn't a law, never was a law, never will be a law. How and why the verbiage in these announcements was not screened and modified by any airline legal department is a question I'd be interested to hear a response to. Mandate or Order by the "federal executive branch" seems to be closer to appropriate.