Ashcroft, John

To add to the legal turmoil, in May 2001 U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft announced that the Justice Department would essentially adopt the individual rights approach to the Second Amendment, while at the same time saying that it would not challenge any existing federal gun laws. 

Besides the guns themselves, gun records also became the subject of confrontation. The U.S. attorney general, John Ashcroft, has refused to allow records from firearms back ound checks to be used by terrorism investigators. New York senator Charles Schumer (a prominent gun control advocate) has argued that every day the FBI is barred from using this [back ound check] information, the investigatory trail grows colder. 

January 17 At his confirmation hearing, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft reiterates the Bush administration s support for extending the ban on assault weapons when it comes up for renewal. 

May 17 In a letter to NRA chief lobbyist James Jay Baker, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announces a radical shift in Justice Department policy in which it will accept the individual rights theory of the Second Amendment. However, subsequent statements imply that the Justice Department will not seek to overturn any existing federal firearms laws on Second Amendment grounds. 

Criminal Back ound Check System) for criminal and antiterrorist prosecutions in addition to its intended use for checking gun buyers. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft opposes such measures, however. 

The federal challenge to the law came in the form of a Nov. 6, 2001 directive from Attorney General John Ashcroft. That directive banned the prescription of what the Oregon law calls Death with Dignity drugs. Ashcroft said in the directive that a lethal prescription did not meet the legitimate medical purpose standard in the Controlled Substances Act. 

Look in textbooks on solid-state physics (e.g. Charles Kittel, Introduaion to Solid State Physics, John Wiley and Sons or N. W. Ashcroft, N. D. Mermin, Solid State Physics) for the values of the following fundamental properties of inorganic semiconductor crystals (in particular Si and/or Ge) and compare them with the corresponding values for organic semiconductor crystals (in particular naphthalene and/or anthracene), which you can find in the present book. Discuss the reasons for the differences. 

Serjeant, G.R., and Ashcroft, M.T. (1973) Delayed Skeletal Maturation in Sickle Cell Disease Anemia in Jamaica, Johns Hopkins Med. J. 132, 95-102. 

Source Data from Kittel, C., Introduction to Solid State Physics, 7th ed., John Wiley Sons, New York, 1966 Ashcroft, N. and Mermin, N.D., Solid State Physics, Brooks Cole, Belmont, MA, 1976. 

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