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...high-court turnaround came in an obscure case from San Antonio, where the local transit authority challenged the U.S. Labor Department's right to apply federal wage and hour rules to overtime payments of its bus drivers and other employees. A U.S. district judge concluded that public transit was one of the core local functions protected under the 1976 Supreme Court ruling, and that the wages and hours of transit workers were therefore immune to federal regulation. In overturning that finding, Justice Blackmun wrote for the court majority that various federal tribunals had failed utterly to agree on which local...
Reagan Administration officials praised the high-court ruling. Said Alfred Regnery, director of juvenile programs for the Justice Department: "It recognizes that juvenile crime is serious business that needs to be dealt with seriously." But others were appalled. New York University Law Professor Martin Guggenheim, who handled Martin's Supreme Court appeal, denounced the decision as a "throwback to pre-20th century law," when children had few rights. Some critics thought it was especially unfortunate that the high court upheld the New York laws since Guggenheim had convinced two lower federal courts that it was being used...
Fool-Fo, impersonating by turns a police inspector, a high-court judge and a bishop, leads the local police through what is supposedly an official investigation of the anarchist's death. They (Tom Hewitt as the captain, Michael Jeter as the sergeant, Joe Palmieri as an inspector, Raymond Serra as the police chief) are basically cartoons of goons, the Four Stooges horsing around in the basement of the Lubyanka. Fo's jokes sometimes foozle aimlessly about the room like a balloon that jets on its own escaping air. An effort to give an essentially Italian product some American...
...Many African countries do not tolerate a free press. Indeed, they favor the adoption of UNESCO-proposed guidelines that Western critics claim will submit reporters to greater regulation. Many African countries lack independent judiciaries, or blatantly disregard the ones they have. Authorities in Zimbabwe, for example, recently ignored a high-court decision to acquit six white air force officers who had been accused of sabotage. The officers have since been released...
...that many men refuse to back the ERA and other guarantees of equality on the ground that since women do not bear certain burdens, like the draft, they are not entitled to all of society's benefits. Most scholars, however, do not view the decision as a major high-court retreat on sex discrimination. Says University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard: "I'd call this a military case, not a sex-discrimination case. I wouldn't read any broad signals into...