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...Boston University Law School: "The court realizes this is a pressing issue. If they duck this case, another one will come up soon. This is a good vehicle for stopping the whole movement in its tracks." Nevertheless, laws limiting the terms of state officials, which have generally been upheld by lower courts and are not at issue in next week's Supreme Court case, have changed the nature of political activity from the school board to the Governor's mansion. A case in point: California's term limits may require assembly speaker Willie Brown, who has won re-election every...
...another sign that phone and cable companies are being allowed into each other's domains, a federal appeals court today upheld a lower court decision allowing phone companies to sell TV programs directly to their customers. A unanimous three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court ruled that the current federal regulations barring phone company entry into TV are a violation of free-speech rights. Congress had enacted the ban in 1984 to prevent phone companies from using their monopoly power to subsidize efforts in cable. Many cable companies are aggressively pursuing plans to provide phone services. The congressional...
...Supreme Court snubbed a New York professor who was removed from his post at City College after igniting a firestorm of criticism over allegations that some of his public pronouncements were anti-Semitic. A federal appeals court upheld a judge?s ruling which restored Leonard Jeffries as black studies department chairman because his removal -- for a 1991 speech charging that Jews had a history of oppressing blacks -- violated his First Amendment rights. But the Justices today ordered the New York federal court to restudy its ruling in light of a separate May Supreme Court decision, which says a public employee...
...telephone interview yesterday, Boston Herald editor Jack Sullivan upheld the reporter's challenge to the organizers. He said the Herald is accustomed to being admitted to local events on the sole basis of its press credentials...
...courts treated children who were kept home as truants; but home schooling is now legal in every state. Thirty-four states have passed specific statutes and regulations, and 29 require standardized testing for home-schooled students to ensure that they are passing muster. Last June the Texas Supreme Court upheld a ruling that exempted home-schooled children from the state's compulsory-attendance laws. As long as parents use a curriculum that includes written materials and meets "basic education goals," the court ruled, the state has no authority over the matter...