Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategies, some of the approaches he emphasized are likely to fuel further debate over whether constitutional guarantees will be a casualty of the war against drugs. A decade of stepped-up antidrug efforts has already left its mark on American law and life. Powerful state and federal forfeiture laws permit the confiscation before trial of virtually any kind of property remotely involved in or "intended for use" in drug transactions. Drug-sniffing dogs search hallways in Houston public schools. Public housing officials in some cities have evicted the families of suspected drug users. Already, 43% of all businesses with...
...some legal experts have also begun to talk about an emerging "drug exception" to the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures -- a willingness by courts, where drugs are concerned, to permit searches they might otherwise disallow. In recent years, for example, the Supreme Court has allowed expanded use of so-called drug-courier profiles -- descriptions of a smuggler's characteristic behavior and appearance -- as a basis upon which to stop and question suspects, despite complaints that such profiles give police license to stop blacks and Hispanics. It has also upheld the right of police to inspect a drug...
...much more than tiny, tasty crustaceans. Kemp's ridley sea turtles, weighing up to 100 lbs., are netted and killed so , often that the species is endangered. Two years ago, the Commerce Department asked shrimpers to rig their nets with trapdoor-like gadgets called turtle- excluder devices (TEDs), which permit trapped turtles to escape. Gulf Coast shrimpers balked, and last spring, when the devices were made mandatory under the Endangered Species Act, the shrimpers protested by blockading shipping channels along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher backed off, allowing shrimpers to limit trawling times instead of using...
Dober based his study on the premise that the first part of 1-2-3 would place tenants in a position similar to that of tenants who lived in rentcontrolled apartments before the city's Removal Permit Ordinance...
Emergency regulations imposed to quell racial unrest have allowed police to ban all outdoor rallies; anti-government meetings in churches, universities or private homes; speeches they consider subversive; and news coverage of protests and police action. They also permit police to detain anyone without charge...