History timetoast

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    iran-contra scandal

    a clandestine action not approved of by the united states congress.
  • gramm-rudman-hollings act

    gramm-rudman-holling balanced budget and emergancy deficit control act of 1985
  • westside community schools -v- mergens

    case requires us to decide whether the Equal Access Act, prohibits Westside High School from denying a student religious group permission to meet on school premises during noninstructional time, and if so, whether the Act, so construed, violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
  • reno -v- ACLU

    It was 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), finding they violated the freedom of speech provisions of the First Amendment.
  • equal access act

    most student led, special intreset, non-curriculum clubs must be allowed to organize in most U.S. high schools.
  • Bush -v- Gore

    It was the landmark 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.
  • air-traffic controllers strike

    controllers who earned an average of 167,000 euros a year are protesting after a resent decree increased the number of hours they work and shortened breaks during shifts.