Word: legality
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Unionization of graduate students is already legal at public universities, but state taxpayers--and not students--bear the costs of wages and benefits. According to the UAW, about 20 percent of teaching assistants, all at public universities, are currently unionized nationwide...
...president of the Harvard Mock Trial Team and serves on the governing board of the PBHA Small Claims Advisory Service, which advises poor people about their legal rights...
...measures reflect growing consensus in the gun control lobby that the movement's efforts should be geared toward states rather than the federal government, for both strategic and legal reasons. "The general feeling of people who want control of guns has been to attack it as a national problem," says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders, who notes that states with larger urban and suburban populations are generally in favor of tighter gun regulation. "Seeing as how Congress is not going to do anything, gun control advocates believe they'll have a better chance at the state level. At the same...
...quickly changing its web address and resuming operations. Third, there are considerable complications caused by varying gambling regulations in the 50 states. For example, how can an ISP differentiate between in-state or out-of-state bettors making an online wager in a state where pari-mutual betting is legal...
...both unenforceable and a violation of their First Amendment rights. For instance, say spokespeople from the Family Research Council and the Christian Coalition, even if an ISP blocks the majority of online gambling sites, that won't keep compulsive gamblers or children from surfing over to the legal, state-regulated sites. The FRC and Christian Coalition's concerns over the bill's inadequacies are joined by similar complaints from the Justice Department. On the liberal side, a spokesperson for the Center for Technology Freedom was indignant: "The fundamental operating truths of the cyber-world are simply not being recognized. Whether...