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Air traffic controllers strike
air traffic controllers were concerned with the working conditions they were being provided by the Federal Aviation Agency or the FAA. -
Equal Access Act
United States federal law to make secondary schools provide equal access to extracurricular clubs -
Gramm- Rudman Act
The law provided for automatic spending cuts to take effect if the president and Congress failed to reach established targets. -
Iran- Contra Scandal
The scandal began as an operation to free American hostages being held by terrorist groups in Iran. -
Westside Community School District v. Mergens
Westside School district denied permission to a group of students who wanted to form a Christian Club in their high school. -
Reno v. ACLU
This court case dealt with the kind of information accessible online and the possible 4th and 5th Ammendment violations because the types of internet communications available is to vague. -
Mitchell v. Helms
This case dealt with the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 in which money and materials were provided to public and private elementary schools but in Louisiana most of these funds were going to private religious schools and the public school board felt that this violated the 1st Ammendments garantee that the government would not set a religion. -
Bush v. Gore
In the circumstances of this case, any manual recount of votes wanting to meet the December 12th deadline would be unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.