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Air-traffic controllers strike
More than 12,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walked off the job, President Reagan said the striking air-traffic controllers were in violation of the law; if they did not report to work within 48 hours, their jobs would be terminated. -
Equal Access Act
A United States federal law passed in 1984 to compel federally-funded secondary schools to provide equal access to extracurricular clubs. Lobbied for by religious groups who wanted to ensure students the right to conduct Bible study programs during lunch and after school, it is also essential in litigation regarding the right of students to form gay–straight alliances. -
Iran-Contra Scandal
A political scandal in the United States that came to notice in November of 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior Reagan Administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo. -
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
It was officially the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act. The act specified a schedule of gradually declining deficit targets leading to a balanced budget in 1991. It also specified that if the administration and Congress were unable to reach agreement on a budget deficit that came within $10 billion of the targets specified in the bill. -
Westside Community School District v. Mergens
Westside High School, in District 66, located in Omaha Nebraska, refused to let a group of students wishing to form a Christian Bible Study Club within their school. The court that the club could not take place because they would not allow a staff member to sponsor it. The students argued that the district's decision was in violation of the Equal Access Act. -
Reno v. ACLU
It's a United States Supreme Court case, in which all nine Justices of the Court voted to strike down anti-indecency provisions of the Communications Decency Act (the CDA). -
Bush v. Gore
The United States Supreme Court decision that effectively resolved the 2000 presidential election in favor of George W. Bush. -
Mitchell v. Helms
It was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that ruled it was permissible for loans to be made to religious schools under Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981.