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...judge threw out the civil rights, defamation and invasion of privacy charges in his ruling, but upheld the case and the other three charges...
...combat missions and serve aboard warships after the government lifted the ban against women in combat. But Shannon Faulkner, a woman who wished to join the all-male state-supported military school, the Citadel, was ultimately denied entrance by both the school and the government of South Carolina, which upheld the school's decision. The school and state formed a plan to donate $5 million to another college so that women could go someplace else...
...might ask, can a color not do the same?" he wrote. The decision reversed a lower court's denial of a trademark for green-gold dry-cleaning press pads made by a Chicago firm. Columbia University Law School professor Jane Ginsburg told TIME Daily that lower courts have upheld many trademarks on colored products and packaging, including Owen Corning's pink insulation. But she said some other such trademarks, including one for blue Nutrasweet artificial sweetener packages, have been shot down...
...America," from welfare reform, which Wilson has applied incrementally every year, to tax cuts, which he proposed in his current budget. On crime, Wilson was a leader of the three-strikes-you're-out movement. On immigration, he earned more points with conservatives by spearheading Proposition 187, which, if upheld by the courts, will deny schooling and other state services to illegals. But Wilson's biggest achievement as Governor has been the fiscal stabilization of California with a budget ax that year after year has held spending to 1991 levels. It has pulled the state back from near financial ruin...
Although he currently emphasizes deregulation, Wilson has traditionally upheld moderately active government. That too goes back to San Diego, where he halted runaway development and im- posed what became a widely imitated blueprint for "managed growth." "I have come to realize that my gut instincts as a young man were pretty valid, that there is a real role for government to do things for the public which they cannot do themselves," Wilson says. "However, I have grown increasingly skeptical of the kind of misfired good intentions that have led to huge increases in enrollment in entitlement programs...