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...compelling until the point at which the fetus was viable. The difficulty with this analysis is clear: potential life is no less potential in the first weeks of a pregnancy than it is at viability or afterward." (In a footnote, Powell rebukes this reasoning as a disguised attempt to overturn the 1973 decision. "The dissent stops short of arguing flatly that Roe should be overruled," he wrote. "Rather, it adopts reasoning that, for all practical purposes, would accomplish precisely that result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Firm on Abortion | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...Scrupulous regard for the rightful independence of state governments' counsels against 'unnecessary interference by the federal courts.' " Professor Louis Michael Seidman of Washington's Georgetown University Law Center disagrees with Justice Lewis Powell that O'Connor's dissent is a veiled bid to overturn Roe vs. Wade. "I don't think it undermines Roe" Seidman says. "But we don't know what she'd do if the basic right to abortion were under challenge. She has left herself flexible to move in either direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Against the Grain | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

District 65 officials yesterday recounted their unsuccessful efforts to overturn the last election, held in April 1981, which they claimed was unfairly influenced by statements made to workers by supervisory personnel. After a long waiting period, the NLRB earlier this year upheld the results of the election, which the union lost...

Author: By Marie B. Morris and Mary C. Warner, S | Title: Labor Union Targets Medical Area | 6/7/1983 | See Source »

...abandoned by the Justice Department. Not only was the IRS ban "wholly consistent with what Congress, the Executive and the courts had repeatedly declared," wrote Chief Justice Warren E. Burger in the unusually forceful opinion, but Congress had implicitly approved the policy by refusing 13 times since 1970 to overturn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Trouble With Blacks | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

Taylor said her group is organizing a petition drive to ask for a referendum to overturn the House Committee's decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Blues | 4/22/1983 | See Source »

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