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...going to reverse this abomination.'' Yet many pro-choicers were also happy with the decisions--particularly the Pennsylvania case, Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ''I'm absolutely elated,'' said Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. Said American Civil Liberties Union Attorney Lynn Paltrow: ''What we have here is a majority that is clear about abortion rights and getting clearer about why abortion has to be protected by our Constitution.'' Some opinions were more qualified. ''We would have preferred a 7-to-2 decision,'' said Eve Paul, vice president for legal affairs...
...antibiotics. But they vetoed corrective surgery that would have prolonged her life and left her severely retarded. Suits filed by a Vermont right-to-life attorney who had no direct interest in the case and by HHS, acting on the basis of the Baby Doe rules, were dismissed. Ultimately, the American Hospital Association and other groups sued to challenge the validity of the regulations and end what they considered harassment. This suit was subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court. Writing for four of the Justices,* Justice John Paul Stevens noted that federal law ''does not authorize the Secretary...
...pleaded guilty to criminal charges of income tax evasion, securities fraud and perjury and settled a civil suit charging that he had made $12.6 million in illegal stock- market profits on corporate takeovers. A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation was in full swing, along with criminal investigations by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. No official accusations were leveled, but Ira Lee Sorkin, the SEC's New York director, disclosed that his agency has 35 insider- trading cases under investigation. Wall Street, said a senior Manhattan investment banker, ''feels like Hollywood in the McCarthy era.'' Speculation that Levine was adding new names...
...were going to die or those people were going to die.'' Observers recalled other recent incidents, including the unsolved fire-bombing death of a black woman in her house in another formerly all-white neighborhood in Cleveland. ''This isn't something that happened overnight,'' said Avery Friedman, an attorney who specializes in fair-housing law. ''It's been brewing for several months.'' Later in the week the Armstrongs moved to a black neighborhood on the city's east side...
...Just weeks after Portuguese police delivered their final report on the case to prosecutors, Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro, the country's Attorney General, announced Monday that the investigation would be shelved, owing, a statement from his office said, to a "lack of evidence that any crime was committed by the persons placed under formal investigation." Comfort, then, for the McCanns - named by Portuguese police as official suspects in the case last fall - as well as for Robert Murat, the Portuguese-based Briton named as a suspect almost immediately after Madeleine's disappearance in May 2007. The three, who strenuously denied...