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...Idaho, up for re-election next year, says he will "support" Reagan's plan but oppose the provisions that adversely affect his state: reduced tax breaks for the timber industry, mortgage deductions for vacation homes, mineral-depletion allowances and investment tax credits for farmers. Says North Dakota Congressman Byron Dorgan: "We're packaging 30 or 40 issues that each would be a major fight...
...Supreme Court held that this kind of case-specific solicitation, though forbidden by the Ohio bar's long-standing ethical tenets, is "commercial speech" protected by the First Amendment. Advertisements, wrote Justice Byron White for the majority, are not comparable to face-to-face solicitation of clients, which can be prohibited because it is "rife with possibilities for overreaching . . . and outright fraud." The court rejected the contention that ads like Zauderer's will "stir up litigation" unnecessarily. "That our citizens have access to their civil courts is not an evil to be regretted," said White. "The state is not entitled...
...years and then escapes to seek revenge on those who wronged him, could have been a routine exercise in nostalgia or camp. But Sellars obviously sees grandeur in the play and is determined to make the audience see it too. If that means flinging in poetry from Byron, music from Beethoven or borrowings from the past 20 years of avant-garde theater, so be it. His stage effects are frequently apt and memorable. When Dantes is thrown into a dungeon, he and a grizzled fellow prisoner (David Warrilow) wail about their plight as their bodies sink beneath the stage. Soon...
...suggesting that any of the current Justices are in their dotage. Byron White, 67, still plays a little basketball in the top-floor gym ("the highest court in the land"), while O'Connor goes there for aerobics. And everyone does a fair share of the mental exercise on the court. "There may be dreadfully reasoned or mistaken opinions," says William Van Alstyne of Duke University Law School, "but they can't be rationalized by the age of the Justices." Although most have complained about the heavy case load, there is little talk of retirement. "After all," quips University of Virginia...
...violated the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable seizure. The case involved an unarmed 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed by Memphis police as he climbed over a backyard fence. "It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape," wrote Justice Byron White in the 6-to-3 decision. "A police officer may not seize an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead...