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...tire of the legal process and petition the court to allow him to take Elian and the rest of his family home to Cuba. Elian is currently bound by an injunction imposed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to remain in the country until the judges rule, in mid-May, on the application for asylum filed on his behalf by his Miami relatives. Even if the court turns down the appeal, it could extend the injunction if the Miami relatives were to take the matter to the Supreme Court. Juan Miguel Gonzalez accepted those terms when negotiations were under...
Third, because information available on the web has to be prohibited globally in order to be prohibited at all, the private censors are working to bend the long-traditional rules that limit the power of courts to act within their own territorial jurisdictions. Suddenly those of us who study these issues are seeing an explosion of requests to state and federal courts in the U.S. to enjoin linking and distribution throughout the Web. So may a court in Iraq or Cuba tell U.S. citizens in the U.S. what they can and cannot read? Of course not. But a U.S. court...
...about 100 lives a years - has managed to tick off both truckers and safety advocates. The safety folks say it could make the roads either more or less dangerous; truckers say it could lead to either more or less work; and everyone agrees it will soak the economy. The rule would limit truckers to one 12-hour shift per 24 hours. The current regulation allows for 10-hour shifts followed by eight hours' rest (or a maximum 16 hours per day of driving). Some drivers pile on the shifts in consecutive days to achieve their maximum 60-hour workweek within...
...watchdog group Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is arguing that the rule would actually lead to increased driving hours over a two-week period and that 12-hour shifts will lead to more driving hours in which truckers are fatigued. The American Trucking Association, meanwhile, argues that truckers' livelihoods would be hurt because the regulation would limit their maximum hours - particularly on jobs that are time-sensitive. No matter how you slice it, the program would be costly both to drivers and to shipping companies. And that, of course, means higher prices to consumers, with one federal agency estimating...
...often listen to what Putin says with frankness on the radio and watch him on TV. I'm greatly impressed by his personality. Our people need a wise and powerful leader such as he. Putin is just the man to rule Russia. IGOR MIKHAILUSENKO Moscow