Word: banning
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...first-year students, 232 volunteered to form groups of four to write the background memos. They will focus on issues like the legal background of media access to trials, judges' power to ban media and how TV coverage of a trial might influence a jury...
...court ruled that a rent control ban is not simply a local issue. In its nine page decision, the court noted that it is "within the power of a municipality to enact a rent control program only when the [State] Legislature has explicitly delegated that power to the municipality...
Hoping for Democratic blood in the upcoming November elections, Republicans used a barrage of procedural tactics to kill what was left of the Clinton legislative agenda as Congress moved to adjourn. A stringent ban on gifts from lobbyists perished in the intense last-minute partisan warfare, as did an overhaul of the Superfund law that would have speeded cleanup of toxic-waste dumps. Miraculous survivors were: a California desert bill that creates the largest wilderness area outside Alaska and an education bill that redirects more federal aid to poorer communities. Clinton assaulted the Republicans for their "stop it, slow...
...term by facing a light -- though politically potent -- docket. Among the cases the high bench plans to decide in the months ahead: whether states can impose term limits on members of Congress, whether the federal child-pornography statute is constitutional, whether Congress has the power to ban guns from the vicinity of schools and what kinds of federal minority-preference programs are legal...
...years, there have been at least 85 cancer-causing pesticides in processed foods on supermarket shelves -- such as raisins, cooking oil, tomato paste and flour -- but the federal government is only now getting serious about a crackdown. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today agreed to review and possibly ban 36 pesticides within two years, then set its sights on 49 more as part of an out-of-court settlement with consumer advocates, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The losers in the deal, the American Crop Protection Association, accused the NRDC of trying to ''create a national food scare...