Word: legality
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...pupil from being beaten up. Because of Smith & Wesson's actions, according to a report in Thursday's New York Times, gun distributors and wholesalers are excluding its products from their stores and shows, and have made it clear the company is unwelcome at shooting matches. The company's legal counsel, which counts other gun makers among its clients, announced it would no longer represent Smith & Wesson. In response to this apparent stonewall - which the gun industry says is not coordinated - the government has moved quickly, launching antitrust investigations against industry leaders...
...logic partakes of the worst of coercive and morally negligent thinking from the other side of the ideological aisle. How does the rationale for prohibiting flag-burning differ from the politically correct fascism on university campuses that, for example, denies a hearing to Ward Connerly, the Californian behind the legal drive against affirmative action...
This is the first time since 1992 - when the Court banned clergy-led prayer at graduations - that the Justices have considered a school prayer case, and legal analysts are predicting a profound impact on school systems nationwide. What separates this case from the 1992 case, say the defendants, is that football games are a voluntary, extracurricular activity that those offended by prayer are free to skip. In addition, they say, Santa Fe students vote on whether to have the prayer. The opponents say that forcing students to choose between being subjected to a religious event and facing potential ostracism...
...This is going to be one of the most important decisions of the Court's term," says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. The case, Sanders says, involves two opposing implications of the First Amendment. If the football game prayers carry the approval of the school authorities - as the use of a school-funded public address system would seem to indicate - the Court may outlaw the practice as a violation of the First Amendment ban on government involvement in religion. If, on the other hand, the Court finds the prayer to be wholly and voluntarily initiated by students, the Justices...
...news for strip club owners and patrons across the nation. In 1998, when the Court upheld New York City's right to limit the establishments to a handful of zoned areas, other cities followed suit. "Municipalities have a long record of trying to shut these places down," notes TIME legal writer Alain Sanders. "Now that the Court has issued this ruling, it's a safe bet that many municipalities will act swiftly to ban nude bars...