Word: courting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Supreme Court should uphold fees as vehicle for free speech...
...Supreme Court heard oral arguments Nov. 10 in a case that endangers the funding of student groups at public universities across the nation. Three conservative law students at the University of Wisconsin: Madison sued the school to recover fees they had paid to support campus student groups. They argued that the school was forcing them to pay for the activities of liberal groups whose messages they opposed. While a federal appeals court has found in their favor, the Supreme Court should reverse that decision and recognize the existence of active student groups as integral to the atmosphere and function...
Scheffer said the challenges faced by the war crimes office included the ongoing tension between peace and justice, the desire of governments to avoid outside interference in their affairs and the absence of a permanent international criminal court...
While there is a lot of enthusiasm for a permanent international criminal court, Scheffer focused heavily on the need to regulate criminal activity in the present, in addition to working to create such a court...
...should a permanent international criminal court be established, it would not be retroactive, so it would not have jurisdiction over past crimes...