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...hard-line tactics, critics say. Palin's administration revoked ExxonMobil's leases of Point Thompson, a giant North Slope oil and gas field, for failing to put the area into production over three decades. Palin chided the company for "warehousing" 8 trillion cubic feet of gas. A state judge upheld the state action but said ExxonMobil and its partners should be given another chance to prove themselves. In February 2008 the company submitted a $1.3 billion plan calling for production of 10,000 bbl. a day of gas condensate to begin in six years. But Irwin rejected the proposal...
...response during the question and answer portion of his lecture, as he employed humor to field the audience’s inquiries. When an audience member suggested that one could hypothetically own large pieces of weaponry under the ruling of the 2008 case District of Columbia vs. Heller, which upheld an individual’s right to bear arms for private use, Scalia responded, “Bearing arms—you can’t bear a tank.” “You can’t bear a cannon or a mortar of the sort...
...early ’90s, with Bowers v. Hardwick (the case which upheld the criminalization of sodomy) on the Supreme Court’s Docket, and the AIDS crisis exploding into the news, LGBT students were louder and more visible than ever. These students insisted that their professors address issues central to queer identity, demanding a class on sexual orientation and the law, and collaborating with other student groups to push for faculty diversity. Activism flared up more recently when the school decided to let military recruiters on campus rather than risk the University’s federal funding...
Curfew laws have been struck down by courts in New Jersey, Washington and California but upheld in Texas and the District of Columbia. They continue to be debated in several jurisdictions. Yet the constitutionality of youth curfew laws has yet to be tested in front of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...long history of not living up to its ideals. That's because more importance is placed on shallow expressions of honor and love of country than on making sure that all people are being treated equitably and that the values we cherish - and preach - are actually being upheld. We tend to excuse our past mistakes and continue to make them over and over. Mary Brewerton, Denver