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Last night's decision was seen as a step towards such a regulation. Under the new zoning designation, developers in the area, which is south of Mass. Ave between Harvard and MIT, may choose to accept the limits of the more restrictive ``Residence C'' zoning, which permits a project with up to 6 units of housing on 1,200 square feet of land. But for the first time, builders may also choose ``Residence C-1'' provisions--which permit up to 10 units on the same land--in return for an agreement to sell half the ``bonus units'' (i.e., extra units...
Mary Beth Whitehead signed an agreement stipulating that, in return for $10,000, she would permit herself to be impregnated by William Stern's sperm, carry the product of that union in her womb and then surrender the resulting child to Stern. Sorkow refused to see so straight forward an agreement obscured. He prohibited any discussion of the nature of the bond between mother and child and barred testimony about the legality of surrogate parenting...
...late in 1952 Elman helped draft an amicus curiae brief for the Truman Administration. He was prompted by Frankfurter's disclosures to go against his own sense of the proper legal argument and tailor the brief to offer the wavering judges a key compromise: that the court could permit states to take a gradual approach to integration. That tactic was later adopted in a unanimous court ruling that called for integration "with all deliberate speed...
...which is on federal land, while the California coastal commission wants to protect it. Last week the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 for the coastal commission, upholding the right of states to enforce environmental requirements even on federal property. California can require the mining company obtain a state permit, even though it had received a federal go- ahead. Fully 19 states, along with the National Governors' Association, had filed briefs as friends of the court on behalf of the coastal commission...
...rest of the work force. They introduced legislation that would hike the minimum by nearly 40%, to $4.65 an hour, by 1990. After that, the rate would be tied to half the average hourly U.S. wage. Kennedy says it is "unacceptable" that the current minimum wage "does not permit full-time workers to provide the bare necessities for their families...