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State of Oregon vs. Ashcroft
US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
The U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that Attorney General Ashcroft's "unilateral attempt to regulate general medical practices historically entrusted to state lawmakers interferes with the democratic debate about physician assisted suicide and far exceeds his authority in prohibiting the Oregon law permitting physician assisted suicide."
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The First Amendment and FCC (21k PDF)
New York Times on the Web
The FCC is churning out new, vague rules to combat "indecency." It promises to "analyze other potentially profane words or phrases on a case-by-case basis." While making its criteria hopelessly vague, the F.C.C. is removing longstanding protections and could stifle important artistic expression, since broadcasters will be afraid of
wandering too close to an essentially undefined line.
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Approved Advertising only!
A federal law limits advertising to one political point of view and even some D.C. politicians who voted for it aren't aware of it.
Last year, Congress passed and President Bush signed a transportation spending bill with a provision that no federal funds go to transit systems that run any ad that "promotes the legalization or medical use of" any drug listed in Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act. A transit agency selling a billboard to an advocacy group that supports medical marijuana, can lose the federal dollars that keep it running.
The ACLU sees the law as a First Amendment violation. As Bruce Mirken, the San Francisco voice of the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, noted, "This is viewpoint discrimination. San Franciscans right now are barred by law from buying a billboard in BART or Muni stations supporting Proposition 215 (the medical marijuana measure approved by California voters in 1996) and from urging our members of Congress to try to change federal law."
Meanwhile, political groups that oppose medical marijuana are free to advertise on BART.
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http://zfacts.com/p/592.html | 11/21/09 06:21 GMT
Modified: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 05:43:57 GMT
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Sample Chapters
Carbonomics:
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Kyoto II,
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