Word: information
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pertaining to private computer files is the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970. Under its provisions, credit-rating bureaus must give people access to their own credit files and the opportunity to correct mistakes. But the law is weakened by the fact that companies are not required to inform people that files on them have been opened...
Colorado's defense for its tough stance on AIDS takes this argument even further. Since last month physicians have been required by law to violate the doctor-patient relationship by reporting the names of those who test positive for the virus; the state then makes an active effort to inform sexual contacts. There is legal precedent for such measures. In a 1977 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York State law that called on pharmacists to turn in the names of customers with prescriptions for narcotics popular in the drug underworld...
Just who might be Powell's successor was not settled at week's end. Chief Justice William Rehnquist did not phone White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker to inform him of Powell's decision until 9:35 Friday morning, less than an hour before Rehnquist announced the news from the bench on the last day of the court's current term. Reagan and a few top aides immediately began discussing names. The two leading candidates were Robert Bork, a federal appeals-court judge in the District of Columbia, and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. Reagan expressed a desire...
...result of a joke about North. He did not elaborate.) Hakim told the congressional committees that the $200,000 was a "death benefit" for North's wife and four children. Knowing that U.S. officials are forbidden by law to accept outside contributions, Hakim says he did not inform North of the account...
...state that exerts substantial legal influence beyond its boundaries. The decision upheld the right of Jane Maharam, 56, to sue her former husband Robert, 56, on her claim that he had herpes and did not tell her. The court found that such partners have a legal duty to inform each other about their venereal diseases. Jane, who was married to Robert, an entrepreneur, for 31 years before the couple were divorced in 1984, is seeking damages of more than $2.5 million. The manager of a record company in Manhattan, she says she had few reservations about filing a suit charging...