Word: bans
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...Keith Elston, head of the ACLU in North and South Dakota, yesterday retracting his threat to expose gay lawmakers who vote to ban homosexual marriages in the Dakotas after being reprimanded by the national director of the ACLU...
McCaffrey is right about one thing: the medical marijuana initiatives will complicate the national ban on marijuana because the feds are now left with three self-defeating options. One is to bust caring doctors who prescribe pot to sickly patients in the two states with successful referenda, a move sure to cause a democratic uprising at the polls--and one to be noticed in California. Second is to ignore the medical use of the drug, which in itself helpful in alleviating the legal burden. Third is for the federal government to step in as the only legitimate possessor...
...fact, it is widely known among Massachusetts criminal lawyers that Homans' arguments led the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to ban the death penalty...
...PERSIAN GULF: An oil embargo, and the chance to make money off it, makes strange bedfellows. Case in point: Former mortal enemies Iraq and Iran, now working together to smuggle oil out of Iraq in defiance of the UN ban. The U.S. Navy has been monitoring a fleet of Iraqi ships that they believe are loaded with diesel fuel that travel down Iran's coast and use the country's territorial waters, where U.S. ships can not go, as cover before offloading at ports in Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Twice in recent weeks, U.S. Navy warships have been...
...advertising aimed at teenagers. Terming the FDA restrictions a violation of the First Amendment and a prime case of federal overreach, lawyers want Judge William Osteen, a onetime tobacco industry lobbyist, to rule against the FDA without a trial. Tobacco representatives argue that the next step is a total ban on cigarette sales. If enacted, the rule would certainly put a crimp in an industry where 90 percent of new smokers are under the age of 18. That's just the point, the Clinton Administration counters, that children under 18 are too young to make responsible decisions about smoking. Whatever...