Word: ruling
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...only hope that in future years the departure of prominent women such as Schor and Benhabib is the exception, rather than the rule...
...been conciliatory towards the indigenous Indian rebels' social demands. He has revived several laws to protect Indian rights that were scrapped under the previous Zedillo administration. Fox has also sent a package of reforms to congress, labeled the San Andres Accords. These proposals to give limited home-rule to Mexico's indigenous Indian communities were scuttled by the Zedillo government...
...identity of the loser is perfectly clear," writes Justice John Paul Stevens in a sharp, biting dissent destined to join those of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Class of 1863, in the history books. "It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule...
...President Al Gore '69 strongly disagreed, and activists on both sides of the abortion debate said that this election was crucial because the next president will have the opportunity to significantly reshape the court. No one pretends that the court's stance on abortion is based solely on the rule of law; it relies on the political framework through which the justices view the Constitution...
Safe Harbor? Who Needs It? By depending heavily on a questionable interpretation of the federal "safe harbor" rule - the basis for the December 12 and 18 deadlines we've heard so much about - the majority Justices (Rehnquist, Kennedy, O'Connor, Scalia and Thomas) took a risky route to their ruling...