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...intent of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act is clear enough: to prohibit former federal officials from selling their influence with friends in Government. The law is not unduly restrictive. A would-be lobbyist must wait only one year after leaving the Government before contacting his old associates. Yet Congress wrote such ambiguous language into the law that until last week no one had ever been convicted of violating...
...State of the Union address last month, Ronald Reagan reiterated an old battle cry. "Let us unite as a nation and protect the unborn," he urged. Within days, the Administration took action, announcing new regulations that will prohibit federally funded family-planning clinics from even mentioning abortion. The restrictions, which would affect 4,000 clinics and 4.3 million patients a year, were attacked last week not only by abortion advocates but by civil liberties groups and a host of medical organizations, some of which filed suit against the Government. The regulations, charged Rachel Pine of the A.C.L.U., would "turn...
Such a law, if passed in its original form, would prohibit the state from doing business with American companies that have investments in South Africa. The law, which would be the first of its kind in the country, also terminates existing state contracts with such firms...
...radio stations at the University of Massachusetts will have to end their operation because of law that prohibit stations with signals as weak as theirs, the Associated Press reported this week...
...while the decision gave prosecutors a big lift, it left the law that governs insider-trading cases as murky as ever. By a vote of 8 to 0, the Supreme Court ruled that Winans had violated general laws that prohibit wire and mail fraud. On the separate issue of whether Winans had been correctly convicted of breaking federal securities laws, the court split down the middle, 4 to 4, a decision of no value as a legal precedent. Thus the court has still not settled the question of when insider trading is a violation of the securities statutes...