Word: courtly
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...Supreme Court may have to decide just what type of organization the Boy Scouts is. In what could turn out to be a landmark ruling on gay rights, New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the organization, as a "place of public accommodation," is forbidden from discriminating against homosexuals. This decision stands in direct contrast to the California bench?s 1998 ruling that defined the Scouts as a private organization, which therefore had a right to exclude gays. Although the High Court declined to hear an appeal on the California ruling, the conflicting interpretations may persuade the justices to hear...
...legally on a par with, say, a restaurant ? and therefore bound by the state?s anti-discrimination laws. "The New Jersey ruling is an important victory for the gay rights movement," says TIME correspondent Adam Cohen. "The ?place of public accommodation? concept dates from the Civil Rights era when courts ruled against Southern institutions that claimed it was their private choice to exclude black people. The logic of the Boy Scouts? position means that they would also reserve the right to exclude members on the basis of race ? and it?s hard to imagine any court upholding that...
...RIAA, the music industry's main trade group, announced that Wednesday that it is dropping its lawsuits over the Rio portable MP3 player. The end of litigation comes after a San Francisco federal appeals court ruled in June that the Rio is not subject to 1992 federal anti-piracy laws...
Well, if you can't be with the one you love, humiliate the one you're with--that's the spirit behind two raunchy anti-dating games, MTV's The Blame Game (weekdays, 2:30 p.m. E.T.); and the syndicated Change of Heart. On Blame, a court-show parody (its slogan: "Love. Heartbreak. Justice.") aggrieved partners "sue" each other before a hooting audience of their peers. Change fixes up each half of a troubled duo on a blind date, then has them taunt each other about their nights of wine and sweet talk ("He liked that I wasn't wearing...
...SECOND CHANCE Forty-six states and the District of Columbia offer programs in which nonviolent youthful offenders avoid criminal trials and often permanent records by attending teen court. In many instances, the judge and jurors are peers of the accused kid and have the authority to mete out punishment for misbehavior like petty theft. Sentences can mean community service, such as collecting trash...