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Despite its reputation for loosening the restraints on sexual expression, the Supreme Court in recent terms has been making things easier for the anti- obscenity prosecutions. The court recently upheld an Ohio law that made it illegal to possess child pornography. Last year it okayed the use of powerful racketeering laws to seize the assets of pornographers...
...vote, the high bench upheld the constitutionality of Congress's 1984 Equal Access Act. The measure says that no public secondary school receiving federal funds may bar student clubs on the basis of their "religious, political ((or)) philosophical" views, if the school permits one or more "noncurriculum" groups to meet after school hours...
...preventing flag burning is not a vital problem for the nation, preventing constitutional amendments to the First Amendment still is. Not that the Court has ever interpreted the First Amendment as absolute--it has, for instance, upheld laws proscribing seditious libel and speech that represents a "clear and present danger...
...crisis erupted last June when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984. That law permits prosecutors to block a defendant's allegedly ill-got funds -- including money that could be used to pay attorneys' fees -- pending trial. In the event of a conviction, the assets are confiscated for good. The statute, which applies to drug and racketeering offenses, seeks to stop mobsters and drug kingpins from financing their defense with the fruits of their misdeeds. Another purpose, law-enforcement officials maintain, is to bar them from transferring large chunks of their assets to their lawyers...
...scene, which was played out again last week, symbolizes a clash of cultures. At issue are 19th century treaties, recently upheld by the federal courts, that allow the Chippewa to spear spawning walleyed pike in the shallows of 178 northern Wisconsin lakes. Sport fishermen, who are required to use less efficient fishing rods and are limited to three to five fish a day, claim that the Chippewa are harming tourism by depleting the walleye population. "It's 1% of the population exercising their rights to the detriment of 99%," charges Dean Crist, leader of a protest group...