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Even so, a spread of the California revolt might compel Congress to get into the regulatory act. "If California takes off," says a congressional aide, "auto insurance could become a significant national issue." In that case, insurers could find that Washington politicians have suddenly become itchy to take the wheel...
...Because of the doctrine of executive privilege and the president's inherent foreign affairs authority, Congress' authority to compel disclosure of information concerning covert activity is necessarily subject to formidable constitutional limitations...
...that an employer was guilty of discrimination. Two lower courts found that Hopkins had not proved conscious discrimination by Price Waterhouse. But they also found that the promotion system was so infected with biased notions about women that the burden of proof should be shifted to the firm to compel it to show that stereotypes played no role in the decision to reject Hopkins...
Sponsored by the antitax crusader Paul Gann, who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion, and Orange County Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer, the initiative would compel physicians, surgeons, blood banks and test sites to report to public health offices anybody turning up with the HIV virus. Moreover, reporting would be mandatory if there were merely "reasonable cause to believe" a person was infected. HIV carriers would be required to provide authorities with the names of those they might have caught the virus from or passed it to. Dannemeyer, who supported an earlier, unsuccessful ballot proposition requiring the quarantine of AIDS patients...
Arguing that the U.S. had a duty to useeconomic leverage to compel Israel to end itshuman rights violations, Zogby said, "Human rightsshould be measured by one yardstick." He calledCongress hypocritical for taking strong stands onhuman rights and at the same time financiallyaiding Israel...