Word: landmark
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Entering the homestretch of its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court quickened its pace last week by issuing 23 decisions. In addition to its landmark judgment protecting flag burning as a form of free expression, the high bench announced a series of other important rulings in the areas of free speech and criminal law. Following past patterns, the Justices remained vigilant on First Amendment rights but continued to chip away at the constitutional safeguards of criminal defendants...
...freedoms, and the battles fought to secure those freedoms. It embodies, often in an intensely emotional way, the love and loyalty most Americans feel for their country. It stands for the unity of one nation and for the individual rights of each citizen. And now, because of a landmark ruling by a deeply divided Supreme Court, the American flag represents a land where people have the right to burn the American flag...
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that the four all-black elementary schools in Topeka were "inherently unequal," the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision paved the way for desegregation efforts nationwide. Last week the battle returned to Topeka after a federal appeals court in Denver found that the school system continues to be racially segregated...
...struggle between the academic pursuits of this University and its constant search for economic gain. Bok later agreed to consult FAS on future real estate plans, and it was decided last month--after Cambridge citizens complained that the University demolished the station before it could be declared a landmark--that FAS would control the former Gulf Station site...
There is an additional concern among foes of legal intervention. They fear that the real goal in these cases may be an unspoken one: an end run around the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade. That 1973 decision found that the rights of the mother, rather than the fetus, are primary. Says Leslie Harris of the A.C.L.U.: "Those who want to rush in and criminalize the behavior of women are pushing a different agenda than prenatal care. If they can persuade the courts that a woman who chooses to carry a child to term has obvious...