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...Tuesday, Judge Kevin S. C. Chang made a landmark decision, ruling that lawyers for the State of Hawaii failed to make a clear case for the current ban on gay and lesbian marriages...
...dividend. How quaint. The average blue-chip company now pays such a stingy dividend that the yield, which is the dividend divided by the stock price, is less than 2%--a payout so low it had been considered imponderable for most of this century. Yet here it is, another landmark racing past the windshield of this bull-market dragster. Should you care if the typical stock now yields a paltry 1 point something? After all, it's not as though your baby sitter were paging you at the opera. But yes, you should. For a lot of reasons, this...
Hooley entered politics 20 years ago after her son was injured at a local playground. Two decades later, she has developed more (and presumably safer) area parks, along with a landmark state welfare-reform bill and a $10,000-per-year tax-deduction plan for higher education. Hooley's reputation for consensus building has made her a popular candidate and made this one of the closest House races in the country...
...constitutional right. Seeking a way around that ruling, Congress passed legislation requiring that any law imposing a "substantial burden" on someone's religious beliefs serve a "compelling government interest in the least intrusive way." St. Peters Catholic church in Boerne invoked the Religious Freedom Restoration Act when a local landmark-preservation commission blocked the church from building an addition to its 70-year old building. The church contends that the law violates the 10th Amendment rights of states and local governments by forcing federal courts to impose a more exacting standard than the Supreme Court said was necessary...
...constitutional right. Seeking a way around that ruling, Congress passed legislation requiring that any law imposing a "substantial burden" on someone's religious beliefs serve a "compelling government interest in the least intrusive way." St. Peters Catholic church in Boerne invoked the Religious Freedom Restoration Act when a local landmark-preservation commission blocked the church from building an addition to its 70-year old building. The church contends that the law violates the 10th Amendment rights of states and local governments by forcing federal courts to impose a more exacting standard than the Supreme Court said was necessary...