Word: legality
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...invited to travel from Cuba. But Juan Gonzalez and the Cuban government have, until now, rejected the option of his traveling to Miami for a family court hearing, charging that Florida's courts are open to influence from the powerful anti-Castro exile lobby. Although it's still legally possible for Washington to stick by its decision to send the boy home by Friday - legal experts suggest the case falls outside of the Florida family court's jurisdiction - the option may have become politically unpalatable for Washington. Sending Elian home against the wishes of his Florida family would require...
...hand it to the cigarette makers. Even in the competitive field of corporate double-talk, they've cornered the market on denial and legal foot-dragging. Just a year or so after finally admitting that cigarettes do in fact cause serious health problems, and only 10 years after an official complaint was filed on the subject, one major tobacco company looks as if it may address another cigarette-related public relations disaster: The ease with which sleeping or distracted smokers can cause fires. The likelihood of these accidents is exacerbated, critics attest, by the fast-burning paper currently used...
...Florida Strait must be returned to his father by January 14. The decision was based, said INS official Doris Meissner, on the fact that "family reunification is the cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy." His Miami relatives, backed by the local anti-Castro political machinery, are expected to seek a legal injunction against sending Elian home, but it's unlikely that any federal judge will overrule the INS given that the boy's natural father, backed by both sets of grandparents, have demanded his return. "Cuban-American organizations will exhaust every last resort they have, including street protests, because they want...
...shouldn't taint Lopez professionally. Says Variety editor Peter Bart: "So many actors today have such a bland demeanor. A slightly dangerous rep might help, or even enhance, her career." As for Combs, who has proclaimed his innocence, his latest CD, Forever, hasn't sold well, and these new legal hassles only add to his worries. Just last April, Combs was arrested for assaulting a record executive, a matter he settled with a plea bargain, a payout and a day in anger-management class. He is due in court to face the new charges...
...common. Each year millions of grandparents see their relationships with beloved grandchildren curtailed or even severed when the parents split up. And the Troxels are trying to do something about that. Later this month the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of Troxel v. Granville and define what legal rights grandparents have to visit their grandkids...