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...Brown v. Board of Education, the idea of maintaining "separate but equal" facilities for different groups (generally blacks and whites) was widely accepted, especially in the South. ACLU officials found Parkwood's idea of separate classrooms a bit too reminiscent of a less enlightened era, says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The ACLU is approaching the problem from a historical perspective, and the history of segregation, racial or gender-based, is one in which women and minorities have consistently gotten the short end of the stick," says Sanders. So just as an odd coalition of religious conservatives and feminists will...
...control lobby that the movement's efforts should be geared toward states rather than the federal government, for both strategic and legal reasons. "The general feeling of people who want control of guns has been to attack it as a national problem," says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders, who notes that states with larger urban and suburban populations are generally in favor of tighter gun regulation. "Seeing as how Congress is not going to do anything, gun control advocates believe they'll have a better chance at the state level. At the same time, more and more gun control advocates...
...This is going to be one of the most important decisions of the Court's term," says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. The case, Sanders says, involves two opposing implications of the First Amendment. If the football game prayers carry the approval of the school authorities - as the use of a school-funded public address system would seem to indicate - the Court may outlaw the practice as a violation of the First Amendment ban on government involvement in religion. If, on the other hand, the Court finds the prayer to be wholly and voluntarily initiated by students, the Justices...
...strip club owners and patrons across the nation. In 1998, when the Court upheld New York City's right to limit the establishments to a handful of zoned areas, other cities followed suit. "Municipalities have a long record of trying to shut these places down," notes TIME legal writer Alain Sanders. "Now that the Court has issued this ruling, it's a safe bet that many municipalities will act swiftly to ban nude bars...
...agreeing to a settlement, even one as colossal as this, the Voice of America neatly sidesteps any acknowledgment of legal culpability. But that doesn't mean they weren't scared senseless by the evidence piling up against them, says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The government wouldn't have offered half a billion dollars if they didn't see a good case," he says. Now that it's finally over, the Justice Department may wish the case hadn't dragged on quite so long; according to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, all legal fees from the case...