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...because "substantial dredging" would be needed to bring his boat close to shore. Faced with that denial, Perot's contractors realized that any similar request for permission to cut a channel in a nearby coral reef would probably be nixed as well. A week later, without filing for a permit, Perot's construction team blew up a section of the reef near his house...
...poor shape, and it may already have been dead when Perot's men blew it up. Eventually the government decided the damage was not great and did not take anyone to court. On the understanding that Perot would not do any more unauthorized blasting, it then issued a retroactive permit for the dredging...
...second decision, the court struck down by a 5-to-4 vote a Forsyth County, Ga., law that required demonstrators to purchase a parade permit for a fee based on the anticipated cost of police protection. The permit fee was imposed after a series of costly civil rights marches. Said Blackmun, again ! writing for the majority: "Speech cannot be financially burdened, any more than it can be punished or banned, simply because it might offend a hostile mob." Still to come before the end of the term: 14 decisions, involving such major issues as abortion, prayer in the schools...
...sponsored by Democrats to simplify voter registration across the nation -- just in time for the fall election. The so-called motor-voter bill would require states to make it possible to register by mail, at a variety of public buildings and bureaus, and when applying for a driver's permit. But the 268-to-153 vote fell well short of the two-thirds majority needed to override an all but certain presidential veto. "Motor-voter," said top White House lobbyist Nick Calio, "is dead in the driveway...
...zoning board granted a permit specificallyto TCBY, and did not intend for it to apply to anytype of fast food outlet, according to Bracken...