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...this individualistic, atomistic conception of a free speech right and ignored the implications of the First Amendment for society as a whole. The Court laid the foundation for its latest slam of social liberals was laid in a 1976 case which at the time was perceived primarily as a setback for economic liberals: Buckley V. Valeo...
...setback for anti-abortion activists, the Supreme Court refused to hear the first of several challenges to the year-oldFreedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.The law makes it a federal crime to block access to abortion clinics or intimidate either clients or clinic staff members. Without comment, the Justices let stand a federal appeals court ruling against Joyce Woodall, an anti-abortion demonstrator who was arrested after kneeling against a Falls Church, Va., clinic door and praying. Woodall's appeal said the law was unconstitutional in limiting anti-abortion speech or expression, but Justice Department lawyers said...
...setback for the O.J. Simpson defense team, Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution can introduce into evidence more than 40 graphic autopsy and crime-scene photos of the two slashed victims, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Judge Ito said the probative value of the "horrible" photos outweighed any prejudicial impact they might have. Most of the week's testimony involved further -- frequently tedious -- wrangling over the prosecution's blood evidence...
...majority, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the government must show that racial preference programs "serve a compelling government interest" and will be used to redress specific and identifiable effects of past discrimination. Applying this "strict scrutiny" standard, says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen, means "a definite setback for affirmative action. The standard is very difficult to meet." Under this ruling, for example, the government would have to show that setting aside a certain percentage of contracts for minority-owned firms would directly compensate for past discrimination in such business. In today's decision, the court stopped short of striking...
...Penn and Columbia doubleheaders sandwiched around a pair of extra-inning wins were two close losses. Particularly painful was the setback to the Lions in which Harvard blew a 3-0 lead through a pair of the errors...