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...line between what constitutes children's sexual liberation and child molestation is an intriguing one, which steers us firmly in the direction of what constitutes consent. Can an eleven year-old make an informed decision about sexual activity? Should the parameters of what constitutes statutory rape be contracted given the increasing sophistication of children...
...DeBoer-Schmidt case is that it turns more on a father's willingness to relinquish his child than a mother's. Dan Schmidt's quest has raised issues that to date remain largely unresolved. The first question adoption agencies ask birth mothers is whether the baby's father will consent to giving up the child. If the mother doesn't know, some agencies will refuse the case in order to avoid possible court battles. Private adoptions such as the DeBoers' are less strict. More of these may be in jeopardy, says Mary Beth Seader, vice president of the National Council...
Second, its forced divestiture of the local Bell companies means that AT&T no longer has a direct conduit into individual homes and businesses -- and the 1984 federal-court consent decree makes it difficult to get back into that business. Like other long-distance carriers, AT&T must go through the local telephone system and pay access fees for the connection. The telecommunications titan paid $14 billion in such charges last year...
...were to win the case and the ruling were to stand, the Ivy League schools would be released from their consent degree...
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania all signed a consent decree forbidding communication for the next 10 years about certain admissions-related matters...