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...also serve as State Representative for the 26th Middlesex District (eastern Somerville/Cambridge). I am a co-sponsor on the recently passed state-wide ban on smoking in public places. As City Councillor, I voted against the local ban to be consistent with my belief that the smoking ban must be statewide...
...don’t want a takeover like in Chelsea, but it would be a win-win,” he told Knisely, referring to the state-endorsed program that gave Boston University control of the ailing Chelsea school district...
...removed. Legal scholars predict the reinsertion order will be overturned as an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers. Michael's lawyers say they hope to have the state supreme court do just that in a few weeks. Their opponents would probably appeal it first to Florida's district court of appeals, say sources familiar with the case. The reason: Bush and the Christian right feel a protracted legal battle works in their favor by giving them more time to galvanize public opinion behind them...
Those two suits came just weeks after a broad coalition of law schools and professors, calling itself the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), filed a challenge to the Solomon Amendment in a U.S. District Court in Newark...
While the District Court in New Haven is itself “a propitious place to file suit,” according to Sofen, “the legal case is so strong that it doesn’t matter” under which jurisdiction Solomon Amendment opponents litigate...