Word: landmarking
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Though the textbooks are part of a reading series used by 15,000 school districts, this first federal ruling to shelter school children from educational materials is a landmark not for the precedent it might set for schools across the land. Rather, it is important precisely because the ruling specifically limits its application to this particular fundamentalist group's complaint. The decision was not so much a ruling as an exception to the rule. The court seems to have abandoned its function of establishing...
Many of these chronic viruses are now being linked to cancer. A landmark study conducted in Taiwan between 1975 and 1978 by Dr. R. Palmer Beasley, now at the University of California, San Francisco, found a striking connection between chronic hepatitis B infection and liver cancer, a leading killer in the Third World. "Someone infected with hepatitis B has 100 times the normal risk of developing liver cancer," says Beasley, "and that's being conservative." The Epstein-Barr virus has been associated with a couple of types of cancer. In Central Africa and New Guinea, it has been linked...
Meese focused his attack on Cooper vs. Aaron, a 1958 decision prompted by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' defiant resistance to the court's earlier landmark school-desegregation ruling, Brown vs. Board of Education. In a unanimous decision, the Justices pronounced that their decisions were the "supreme law of the land." Nonsense, said Meese. Yes, a Supreme Court decision "binds the parties in a case and also the Executive Branch for whatever enforcement is necessary. But such a decision does not establish a 'supreme law of the land' that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore...
...most extraordinary features of the trial is that the presiding judge, W. Brevard Hand, has previously made his sympathies clear. Nearly four years ago, in a case that gave birth to this one, Hand challenged several landmark Supreme Court decisions with a ruling that not only authorized school prayer in Alabama schools but also stated that the First Amendment did not apply to the states in such cases. Although an appeals court reversed Hand's decision, he provided grounds for restructuring the issue so that the original plaintiff, Lawyer Ishmael Jaffree, was replaced by the 624 Evangelicals and the central...
...demolition permit. A city ordinance requires the historical commission to review any plans to destroy a building more than 50 years old. When the six months have expired, the parish will be free to demolish it, barring the unlikely possibility that the Historical Commission will declare it an historical landmark...