Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exactly the right time to fall afoul of the NCAA--again. With freshman Jeff Tory now sitting out the season under the guidelines of Proposition 48, Maine's academic casualty depth chart stands two-deep (with senior forward Cal Ingraham still serving a 14-game, transcript-related suspension...
Hate-speech regulations, intended to prohibit slurs against minorities, women and gays, have proved nettlesome for other universities. Courts have decreed that the codes at state schools such as the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin run afoul of the First Amendment. At many schools, hate-speech rules are on the books, but are not enforced...
...silence takes its toll. With no acceptable outlet for their rage or grief, children often cause trouble in school. Boys, especially, may run afoul of the police. Some teenagers turn to indiscriminate sex or shooting drugs -- as though they are daring the AIDS virus to do to them what it did to their parents...
Regulations already on the books give consumers the right to have their names removed from telemarketers' lists. But an effort to ban recorded sales pitches has run afoul of free-speech protections. After Congress in 1991 prohibited the use of autodialers that delivered taped messages, an Oregon chimney sweep challenged the measure in federal court. Three months ago, he won a ruling that struck down the law; the FCC is expected to appeal...
...racketeering statutes also offer the government a second crack at trying Nosair for the murder of Kahane without running afoul of the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy. Many people, including the judge in the case, were outraged when a state jury convicted Nosair of gun possession but acquitted him of the murder itself. It is a well-established principle that the same act can be prosecuted twice if it violates the laws of different "sovereignties." And though murder as such is not a federal crime, killing someone to further a racketeering conspiracy, as Nosair is accused of doing...