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...state legislature hoped that coupling the higher speed limit with a mandatory seat-belt requirement would induce the feds to exempt Nevada from the 55-m.p.h. restriction. No such luck. When the Federal Highway Administration promptly announced a cutoff of road-building funds--including $66 million for next year--the state just as quickly backed off. But not without vowing to fight: the state has filed a suit against the Federal Government, calling the threat to stop funding an infringement on states' rights. It is, said Nevada Chief Deputy Attorney General William Isaeff, "like putting a gun to our head...
...another decision last week, the court ruled 6 to 3 that most airlines are exempt from a 1973 law that bars recipients of federal aid from discriminating against the handicapped. The case was brought by three organizations, including the Paralyzed Veterans of America, which noted that some airlines subject the handicapped to humiliations like requiring them to sit on blankets for fear they will not be able to make it to the bathroom. The court found that airports, not airlines, are the recipients of current federal aid programs. Thus airlines are not bound by the strings attached...
...cost of maintaining such increasingly extravagant monuments to Executive Branch ego (currently running at $14.6 million annually), Congress a fortnight ago passed a bill limiting the size of future presidential libraries. Ronald Reagan promised to sign the measure into law --but only after pressuring the bill's authors to exempt the presidential library he plans to build at Stanford University...
...about $2 billion a year to buy up surplus milk, Masstock International, an Irish dairy company, is receiving a federal tax break to construct a large dairy plant in Macon County, Georgia. Most of the funding for this project will come from $4.5 million in municipal bonds, which are exempt from federal taxes. The bonds were issued by Macon County officials, who hope to create new jobs in their area...
...Jewish groups that disagree with Catholicism on abortion are deeply concerned about the case's religious- liberty implications. The suit by a group called Abortion Rights Mobilization, joined by 20 other pro-choice groups and individuals, is aimed at stripping the Catholic Church of its status as a tax-exempt religious organization. The suit is based upon section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, which states that an exempt organization cannot "participate in, or intervene in . . . any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office...