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...until 2 a.m. on weekdays and 4 a.m. on weekends. But amidst reported violations of its present license—which allows Felipe’s to stay open until midnight on weekdays and 2 a.m. on weekends—the restaurant faces disciplinary action, which could include further restrictions on its hours of operation. “We’re under fire for selling burritos or food after hours,” said Thomas J. Brush, the restaurant’s co-owner. “We were caught selling a burrito outside of our door...
...wrote an opinion in which he found it permissible for a prosecutor, trying a black man for murder, to assemble an all-white jury by striking all the prospective black jurors.On gun control, Judge Alito dissented from a third Circuit ruling that allowed Congress, under the Commerce Clause, to restrict possession and sale of machine guns at gun shows. On environmental protections, Alito blocked the right of citizens to take polluters to court under the Clean Water Act, and he threw out a $2.6 million fine against a chemical company for violating the Act.Alito wrote these decisions based...
...many claim to have the answer to the seemingly age-old question of how best to create viable, inclusive social communities at Harvard, for the most part, the solutions that have been proposed constitute little more than treating the symptoms of House life’s deficiencies.Take dining hall restrictions, for example. The argument here goes something like this: restrict access to House dining halls to residents, and you create an incubator for House community and fraternization. But proponents of dining hall restrictions, more often than not, fail to engage the real issue that underlies the purported need...
...dearth of social services in poor countries is a major factor contributing to the transnational adoption rate. She said that the number of transnational adoptions of Paraguayan children dropped from over 600 to 50 annually after Paraguay instituted initiatives to help poor mothers and began to monitor and restrict the adoptions. Bartholet cited other benefits of transnational adoption, namely that the system exposes the world to injustices and detrimental situations in other countries, such as gender discrimination in China. “Adoption is an amazingly mind-opening experience for the parents. It makes them less racist, more globalist...
Akunyili's first move, when she took over the drug-control agency, was to restrict pharmaceutical imports to just two airports and two seaports, each staffed by NAFDAC officials. The agency also made a list of 19 Indian and Chinese companies that had been indicted for manufacturing fake drugs and banned their products. It placed analysts in India and China to recertify any drugs manufactured in those countries before they could be shipped to Nigeria...