Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...completed two more of the 18 holes, either he or his Secret Service guards might have confronted the emotional intruder near the clubhouse. The gunman, Charles R. Harris, 44, a millwright from Blythe, Ga., had rammed his blue four-wheel-drive pickup truck through a locked gate...
...undergraduate were arrested for belonging the mud leading to the launching site. The divinity and graduate students knelt and played in front of the gate at the site...
Another Marine spokesman, Maj. Robert Jordan said anyone approaching the gate to the camp would be shot." Anyone who comes up there is going to be dead." Anyone who comes up there is going to be dead," Jordan told reporters." It will be a shoot-to-kill situation...
...HARDLY BE ARGUED...," the U.S. supreme court ruled in 1969, that "students shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate. "But before and since, an unholy alliance of school administrators, parents, and courts have done just that--often explicitly defending those infringement of students' constitutional rights. In schools in Broward county, Fla., administrators now greet students by painting "Lockers are subject to search" in the hallways. As the rising tide of cries for tighter discipline roll across the country, they often sweep student rights back past the proverbial schoolhouse gate...
...substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others." More surprising still that the court found that "as the intrusiveness of the search intensifies, the standard of Fourth Amendment 'reasonableness' approaches probable cause." Translation to common language: The Fourth Amendment protection against arbitrary searches indeed extends beyond the schoolhouse gate; evidence obtained from such illegal searches cannot be entered in court. the court explicitly limited the intensity of its ruling by specifically exempting school officials from civil liability for damages from illegal searches conducted in good faith...