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The fair use doctrine has given rise to voluminous case law and commentary. Recent Supreme Court decisions have included Hamper <22 ... 

The second major federal regulatoiy event was a Supreme Court decision in 1954 which resulted in the imposition of wellhead price regulation of gas sold in interstate commerce. 

But as philosophers have remarked and courts have ruled, the right to privacy is not absolute. In fact, the place and importance of the right to privacy are still being explored, as the Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) demonstrate. As a result, decisions regarding the right to privacy are very often driven by context. Such may be the case with situations involving computer use, the right to privacy, and pharmaceutical research. 

In Regents of University of California v. Bakke, the famous Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in education, the state gave as one justification for racial preferences for minorities in medical school the need to improve minority health care (Regents of University of California v. Bakke, 1978). No justice of the United States Supreme Court bought that argument, for it was... 

Since the 1960s there has been a sea change in university admissions. Key Supreme Court decisions and federal laws made equal opportunity the law of the land, and many institutions of higher learning adopted policies of affirmative action. The term affirmative action was first used in the 1960s to describe the active recruitment and pro-... 

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Williams, L. (1981). Educational opportunities for African Americans in the sciences, 1955-1980 An assessment of the impact of the 1954 Supreme Court decision. The Negro Educational Review, 32, 101-105. 

The Legal Information Institute (http //supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/) has all Supreme Court decisions since 1990 plus 610 of the most important historic decisions. There are also links to other online case archives. 

That Every Man Be Armed The Evolution of a Constitutional Right. Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Traces the right to bear arms through common law, the colonial experience, and the framers of the U.S. Constitution. Halbrook continues with survey of cases and interpretations in the post-Civil War period and later, as well as Supreme Court decisions. 

Carney, Dan. Brady Decision Reflects Effort to Curb Congress Authority. Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, vol. 55, June 28, 1997, p. 1524. Explains the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Printz v. U.S., where the Court struck down the part of the Brady Bill that required local sheriffs to perform bac%round checks on gun purchasers. The justices ruled that the provision extended beyond Congress s power to regulate interstate commerce. 

Fedarko, Kevin. A Gun Ban Is Shot Down. Time, vol. 145, May 8, 1995, p. 85. Describes the Supreme Court decision U.S. v. Lopez, where the justices overturned the Gun Free Schools law, saying that the federal government s power to regulate interstate commerce did not extend to banning guns around schools. 

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In order to correct misunderstandings which have been indicated in some instances since the issuance of the Supreme Court decision and the entry of the Final Judgment, it is noted that in its decision of April 25, 1978, the Supreme Court of the United States declared The Sherman Act does not require competitive bidding. ... 

It is further noted that as made clear in the Supreme Court decision ... 

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in that genetically altered life forms can be patented a Supreme Court decision in 1980 allowed the Exxon oil company to patent an oil-eating microorganism. This ruling opened up enormous possibilities for commercially exploiting genetic engineering. 

Supreme Court decision in Employment Division v. Smith said that the religious use of peyote by Native Americans is not protected by the First Amendment. 

The 1990 Supreme Court decision in Employment Division v. Smith said that the religious use of peyote by Native Americans is not protected by the First Amendment. This decision was met with the outcry of many religious and civil liberties groups, which led to two legislative acts the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments (AIRFA). Amended again in 1996, AIRFA allowed for the same protection for the traditional, ceremonial use of peyote by American Indians in all 50 states. 

When the chemist acts as an extended technical arm or when he outdistances the reach of the arm is discussed in an 1868 Supreme Court decision (2), which is still applicable ... 

After the second Supreme Court decision, the assignee of the patent now proceeded to act under Sections RS 4917 of the old Patent Act and filed what is known as a disclaimer, and we find this disclaimer now printed as a part of the patent (9), as follows ... 

In view of the Supreme Court decision, it is clear that as many affirmative statements and positive results should be included in a patent specification, as possible. 

Writing two analyses of a Supreme Court decision—from the perspectives of a strict constructionist and a judicial activist... 

The same theory was followed in the recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision in Ramirez v. Amstead Industries, Inc in the process of which the court overruled the principal New Jersey case on corporate successor liability,... 

The Supreme Court decision in the Boutilier case illustrates Sartre s view that The homosexual must remain an object, a flower, an insect, an inhabitant of ancient Sodom or the planet Uranus, an automaton that hops about in the limelight, anything you like except my fellow man, except my image, except myself. For a choice must be made if every man is all of man, this black sheep must be only a pebble or must be me. It is nothing less... 

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