NO STATE INTEREST IN HOMOSEXUAL UNIONS

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  January 2, 2000 ;     364 words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-02-2000 NO STATE INTEREST IN HOMOSEXUAL UNIONS Date: 01-02-2000...as it might be, does not serve any state interest. It serves only the personal and emotional...for the state, and thus it serves no state interest to bestow upon citizens in homosexual...

PROPOSED CIGARETTE AD BAN DRAWS HEATED DEBATE

The Journal Record;  January 11, 1986 ;   STEVEN GREENHOUSE, N.Y.T.N.S.;   787 words ......restrict it when there is a substantial state interest. Despite the lesser protection given...limited when there is a substantial state interest,'' said Athena Mueller, general counsel...would think that there is a very great state interest here.'' Other than state ...

High Court Hears Diversity Debate in Case against University of Michigan.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  April 2, 2003 ;     787 words ......multiethnic society -- the kind of compelling state interest, they said, that the court has upheld...and that diversity was a compelling state interest. Since then, the court has ruled that...Kolbo later argued that a compelling state interest to consider race would exist only if...

GOLDEN CONSIDERING CONTROL OVER PARKWAY.(Local)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  November 1, 1999 ;   Gerhardt, Gary;   347 words ......designate a development a matter of state interest, said Golden planning director Steve...through the city.'' Those matters of state interest could include traffic, noise, air and...Christopher said declaring areas of state interest has been tested for utilities such...

ON GAY UNIONS AND STATE INTERESTS

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  January 10, 2000 ;     143 words ......Star B, Two Star P, One Star B Column: YOUR VIEWS In "No state interest in homosexual unions" (Your Views, Jan. 2), Howard A. Miller...the same rights as heterosexual couples does not serve any state interest and thereby should be of no concern to the Vermont Supreme...

A rational basis for affirmative action: a shaky but classical liberal...

Michigan Law Review;  August 1, 2002 ;   Epstein, Richard A.;   787 words ......student body count as a compelling state interest that justified a departure from the...court level, counted as a compelling state interest for the University of Michigan College...to produce some form of compelling state interest test to justify affirmative action...

Extending marriage to gays and lesbians would stabilize...

The Washington Times;  February 22, 1996 ;     236 words ......this radical social reform show why there is a compelling state interest in making such an extension ( Will legal recognition of...showing that extending the marriage privilege is a compelling state interest. Among them are the preservation and stabilization of families...

Don't let laws impede religion practices

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 7, 1992 ;   David W. Inlander;   776 words ......it can be shown to serve a "compelling state interest." The compelling state interest test would, in effect, weigh the threat...further and characterized the compelling state interest test as a "luxury" and not a fundamental...

U. Michigan must sell science of diversity to Supreme Court

University Wire;  March 21, 2003 ;   Tomislav Ladika;   787 words ......Court that diversity is a compelling state interest, and evidence claiming that diversity...of whether diversity is a compelling state interest is a legal question, and not necessarily...such that diversity is a compelling state interest, she said. Michigan State University...

Washington state judge rules gay couples can marry He cites no 'state...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 5, 2004 ;   MELANTHIA MITCHELL;   486 words ......gay couples can marry He cites no 'state interest' and lack of evidence that same-sex...Barring same-sex marriages serves no "state interest" and violates the constitutional right...related to any legitimate or compelling state interest." Critics of same-sex marriage criticized...

Vibrator ruling

The Independent - London;  March 31, 1999 ;     40 words ...AN ALABAMA state law banning the sale of vibrators has been overturned by a judge for bearing no "relation to a legitimate state interest", after a challenge by women who claimed the devices were necessary for sexual pleasure they could not get otherwise.

Fed: Spy trial jury discharged

AAP General News (Australia);  November 26, 2001 ;     382 words ......judgment on a prosecution application for state interest immunity for two secret documents...not formally invoked its claim for state interest immunity until day three of the trial...Justice Gray upheld the claim for state interest immunity. But he ordered that prosecution...

Excerpts From Supreme Court's Decisions on Parental Notification Cases

The Washington Post;  June 26, 1990 ;     787 words ......reasonably further any legitimate state interest. . . . In the ideal family setting...notification fail to serve any state interest with respect to functioning families, it disserves the state interest in protecting and assisting the...

art review; Representational Technique

Seven Days;  July 9, 2003 ;   Anonymous;   578 words ......Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that "diversity is a compelling state interest in the context of university admissions." Diversity is also a compelling state interest in the context of university museum acquisitions --at least at UVM...

Death, ethics, and the state.

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy;  March 22, 2000 ;   Kalt, Brian C.;   787 words ......would probably agree that there is a state interest in ensuring that doctors maintain high...jurisdictions that have asserted a state interest in EIMP have ever really explained...have cited earlier cases asserting a state interest in EIMP. The cited cases themselves...