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...Holiness," the statement read, "took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the church's consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development." (See the top 10 religion stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catholic Judges and Abortion: Did the Pope Set New Rules? | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...build a defensive shield against nuclear missiles, even though his organization, High Frontier, uses the words in a new pro-SDI television commercial. George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars movie trilogy, hates the usage most of all. His company, Lucasfilm, asked a Washington federal district court to enjoin the TV spot on the ground that it damages a valuable trademark (film revenues to date: $1.3 billion) by taking Star Wars out of "the congenial realm of fantasy and entertainment" and associating it with "the frightening world of nuclear holocaust and death." When Judge Gerhard Gesell refused to issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...since they aren't technically Padilla's jailers, and that because Padilla is now being held in South Carolina, he is outside the New York court's jurisdiction. They even suggested that the President is legally untouchable: "A court of the United States," they wrote, "'has no jurisdiction...to enjoin the President in the performance of his official duties.'" While they were at it, they tried to take Newman out of the game, arguing that she lacks the authority to act on Padilla's behalf. In short, Newman was the wrong person, suing the wrong people, in the wrong place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lawyer: The Lawyer: The Accidental Advocate | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...those few days, she was, as her biographer Edward Klein put it, the art director for the entire world. She nurtured the myth of Kennedy exceptionalism until her death, vetting the work of biographers and monitoring the flow of information out of the Kennedy Library. She even sued to enjoin the publication of a book, Death of a President, that she had commissioned but deemed too candid. Publicly she kept herself at a regal remove, seldom granting interviews. So deep was the affection of her countrymen that it survived her marriage to a shady Greek billionaire and flourished again after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth Machine | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Florida. What happens if the state's electors are still under legal challenge by Dec. 18, the date they have to vote? Could federal or state courts enjoin the electors from voting on Dec. 18? A: It's possible but unlikely. First, courts are generally loath to get into electoral issues, let alone one this hot. Also, since the Constitution mandates that the electors all vote on the same day, if Florida's electors don't vote with the rest of the country on Dec. 18, the state would forfeit its electoral votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Bound | 11/11/2000 | See Source »

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