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...Government's attempt to police the quality of medical care received by severely handicapped infants. Striking down the Administration's controversial ''Baby Doe'' regulations, the Justices ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services had no authority to pressure hospitals to treat handicapped newborns without parental consent. Solicitor General Charles Fried, who last summer argued the Administration's case for upholding the Pennsylvania law, stood up to the judicial barrage at a press conference. ''Some weeks are better than others,'' he shrugged. Seizing on Burger's support for the dissenters in the Pennsylvania decision, Fried countered, ''I think what...
...point, Kennedy asked Cox, who served as Kennedy’s solicitor general, about the prospect of arresting Barnett as well as General Edwin A. Walker, a former military officer who is said to have urged an anti-integration crowd to resist federal actions violently...
Best not to bother Dan Maccallum on Grand Prix day. On March 16, as the cars lined up on the grid in Melbourne, the Sydney solicitor and father of two began his season's viewing in exactly the way he has always done: no one but him in the house, and a large Supreme pizza delivered just before the start of the race. "I was rude to my family in the morning," he says. "I reminded them that they'd promised to go away for a couple of hours in the afternoon." What does he love about F1? Screaming engines...
...favored a broader interpretation that included individual rights. "The two clauses go together beautifully: Since we need a militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," said Justice Antonin Scalia. In a spirited back-and-forth with the district's lawyer, former solicitor general Walter Dellinger, Chief Justice John Roberts scoffed at the D.C. ban's sweeping restrictions. "What is reasonable about a total ban on possession?" he asked. Justice Samuel Alito joined his colleagues, pointing out that the ban's provision - that legal rifles or shotguns be kept unloaded, with the trigger...
According to City Solicitor Donald A. Drisdell, the new measure won’t lead to drastic changes for local businesses...