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Air-traffic controllers strike
The air traffic controllers' strike has been viewed as one of the major labor strikes in recent history. This labor strike showed the members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association's concern with the working conditions they were provided with by the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA). This strike was not a strike of abruptness and without warning -
Equal access rights
Most student-led, special interest, non-curriculum clubs must be allowed to organize in most U.S. high schools. Their right to assemble is usually protected under a federal law -- the Equal Access Act -
Iran-contra Scandal
a clandestine action not approved of by the United States Congress. It began in 1985, when President Ronald Reagan's administration supplied weapons to Iran a sworn enemy in hopes of securing the release of American hostages held in Lebanon by Hezbollah terrorists loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's leader. -
Gramm-Rudman-hollings Act
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, U.S. budget deficit reduction measure. The law provided for automatic spending cuts to take effect if the president and Congress failed to reach established targets. -
Westside Community school district v. Mergens
Bridget Mergens, who had come up with the idea for a Bible group, discussed the principal’s decision with a lawyer she knew. The lawyer, Douglas Veith, thought the principal was wrong. The federal Equal Access Act passed in 1984 had said that as long as schools allowed any groups not related to the curriculum to exist, they must provide a “limited open forum.” Under this policy, they could not bar meetings of their student-initiated and controlled groups on the basis of the “religious, political -
Reno v. ACLV
a group of organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), challenged the “indecent transmission” and “patently offensive display” provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. These provisions made it a crime to send offensive Internet material to persons under age eighteen. The district court found for the ACLU. On behalf of the Federal Government, Attorney General Janet Reno appealed to the Supreme Court. -
Mitchell V. Helms
On August 19, 1999, WLF asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let private schools continue receiving federally-funded computers and other high-tech educational tools. Federal law gives state and local education agencies "block grants" to buy computers, videos, library books, and other educational materials. A group of taxpayers filed suit, claiming that the program violated the Constitution. The district court ultimately found that the program was constitutionally valid. However, the U.S. Court of App -
Bush v. Gore
On December 8, 2000, the Supreme Court of Florida ordered that the Circuit Court of Leon County tabulate by hand 9,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County. It also ordered the inclusion in the certified vote totals of 215 votes identified in Palm Beach County and 168 votes identified in Miami-Dade County for Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., and Senator Joseph Lieberman, Democratic Candidates for President and Vice President. The Supreme Court noted that petitioner, Governor George W. Bush asserted that