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...contentious 5-4 decision that pitted free speech against the rights of victims, the Supreme Court ruled that ambulance-chasing lawyers cannot contact accident victims or their families within 30 days of an injury. The Justices reinstated a Florida law that barred the solicitations, as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor put it, to "forestall the outrage and irritation" of victims. The ruling reverses a 1977 Supreme Court decision that lawyers have a free-speech right to advertise their services. In dissenting from today's ruling, Justice Anthony Kennedy called the decision "censorship pure and simple," and a "serious departure" from...
...greater leeway than the states in creating such programs. The case involved Randy Pech, a white Colorado contractor, who charged that a federal program offering government contractors financial incentives to use minority-owned firms as subcontractors unfairly discriminated against his business. Writing for the majority, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the government must show that racial preference programs "serve a compelling government interest" and will be used to redress specific and identifiable effects of past discrimination. Applying this "strict scrutiny" standard, says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen, means "a definite setback for affirmative action. The standard is very difficult...
...Delia O'Connor '70, now a hospitaladministrator, said she regretted the "comicallyill-informed positions" she and other anti-wardemonstrators adopted during their years atHarvard...
...result of the police investigation, the Dunster superintendent H. Joseph O'Connor canceled that morning's storage hours...
Though Chant sold 6 million copies worldwide and grossed more than $50 million for EMI Records (whose stars range from Sinaad O'Connor to Digable Planets), Laurentino de Buruaga, the group's choirmaster, complains that the monks have earned a paltry $40,000 from it--hardly enough to patch the leaking roof over their medieval cloister. In response, the monks have followed the example of secular recording stars from time immemorial: they've switched labels. Their new CD, The Soul of Chant, was released last month by Milan Records, a smaller classical label...