Word: bans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report, which recommended severing funding to ROTC because of the military's ban on gay, bisexual and lesbian servicepeople and cadets...
...Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in a California case upholding a 1977 law banning distribution of child pornography, two years after an appeals court ruled the ban unconstitutional. The decision reinstated a Los Angeles porn shop owner's conviction for distributing sexually-explicit videotapes made by porn star Traci Lords when she was 15. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented on the central issue, claiming the law cannot effectively single out those who "knowingly" make, distribute or receive depictions of minors engaged in sexually-explicit conduct...
...message called for "those people who disagree with Harvard's current implication in the military's ban on gays to please write President Rudenstine to express your displeasure and urge the revocation of this support." A copy was forwarded to The Crimson by a recipient...
...action is that we are somewhat divided ourselves on the issue," she said. "Some people feel very strongly that we have to sever all ties to ROTC, while other people feel that the rights of the students involved are more important than the abstract issue of the gay ban...
...lower court decision allowing phone companies to sell TV programs directly to their customers. A unanimous three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court ruled that the current federal regulations barring phone company entry into TV are a violation of free-speech rights. Congress had enacted the ban in 1984 to prevent phone companies from using their monopoly power to subsidize efforts in cable. Many cable companies are aggressively pursuing plans to provide phone services. The congressional ban was challenged by the Bell Atlantic-Virginia, a unit of Bell Atlantic Corp, which wants to offer video...