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...evidence. The high court ruled in 1984 that such evidence was admissible so long as police obtained a warrant and were acting in "good faith." In California, Massachusetts and New Jersey, state supreme court judges have decided that their constitutions demand public financing of abortions for poor women, even though the U.S. Supreme Court has found no reason under the U.S. Constitution to require such spending. Oregon and Hawaii, respectively, going far beyond the U.S. Supreme Court, have used the free speech and privacy guarantees in their constitutions to strike down local antipornography laws...
...venue. "I came face to face with Reagan's federal appointees and got tired of being kicked around," says Jim Harrington, legal director of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Harrington has not filed a major civil rights case in federal courts in the past seven years. Two years ago, though, he convinced the Texas Supreme Court that the state's constitutional right to privacy precluded mandatory lie-detector tests for state employees. And in 1984 he won the right to workers' compensation for itinerant field hands under a state equal-rights amendment passed...
...some legal experts. In their opinion, a hit on Saddam could be accomplished in ways that did not violate the letter of the order (the spirit is another question). Simple though it seems to be, the order leaves room for argument...
That is abysmal compared with what other industrialized nations allow. Salaried women in France can take up to 28 weeks of unpaid maternity leave or up to 20 weeks of adoption leave, though they are less likely to need it since day care, health care and early education are widely available in that country. In France, as well as in Belgium, Italy and Denmark, at least 75% of children ages 3 to 5 are in some form of state-funded preschool programs. In Japan both the government and most companies offer monthly subsidies to parents with children. In Germany parents...
...have surfaced in such usually well-informed journals as Moscow News and Literaturnaya Gazeta. The first flock of rumors suggested that a pro- democracy, antigovernment rally in Moscow would serve as the pretext for the coup. The rally came and went with little incident. The rumors bubbled on -- even though conspiracy theorists cannot agree on who is supposed to be plotting against whom. While most talk is of a coup mounted by military conservatives eager to institute a law-and-order regime, Vladimir Petrunya, a commentator for TASS, has charged that it is reformist radicals who want to overthrow...