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...Officers went to the Holyoke Arcade on a report of disorderly conduct. 57-year-old Pia N. Setti, of Watertown, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct...
...hexane and other air toxic levels that are considered abnormal." A private testing company, hired by the oil company currently operating the wells, reached the same conclusion. And the Brockovich firm has not provided any evidence of a valid epidemiological study - which it does not have the expertise to conduct - to support its charges that rates of cancer and other illnesses are higher among Beverly Hills High school graduates than among other residents of the Los Angeles basin. Epidemiologists say a valid study would identify each graduate's ethnicity, diet, smoking habits, employment, family history, place of birth and changes...
Only 17 years ago, the court upheld Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick; but last week the court dumped its own precedent, voting 6 to 3 to throw out a Texas law prohibiting private homosexual conduct. The Texas case arose in 1998 when a neighbor with a grudge called the Houston police to investigate what he claimed was a disturbance next door; the cops arrived to find John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner in bed together and arrested them under Texas' antisodomy laws. The men were each fined $200 and spent the night in jail. Once the Supreme...
...basic constitutional tenet. Even supporters expressed surprise at Justice Anthony Kennedy's language, given this court's allergy to broad social pronouncements. "The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives," Kennedy argued. "The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime." The court's majority based its landmark decision on a belief in "a realm of personal liberty which the government may not enter." To opponents, it meant that any law based mainly on moral norms was now vulnerable; to supporters, it meant that the court had recognized...
...intimidation, but their broadcast freedom is nevertheless being threatened. Albert Cheng, a bespectacled society icon and radio host, decided last month to take indefinite leave from his ultra-popular talk show, "Teacup in a Storm," after the Broadcast Authority warned his radio station, Commercial Radio, about his on-air conduct. (Wong Yuk-man's program is carried by the same station.) The warning comes at a sensitive time, when the issue of the station's license?due for renewal next year?is still being addressed. The controversy centered on two shows this spring during which Cheng harangued government officials, calling...