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Air Traffic Controllers Strike
13,000 members of the PATCO walked off their jobs hoping to disrupt the nation's transportation, so that federal goverment would allow higher demands for wages, a shorter work week, and the rertirement benifets. -
Equal Acess Act
United States federal law compell federally funded secondary schools to provide equal acess to extracirricular clubs. The act provides that if a school recieves federal aid. -
Iran-Contra Scandal
Was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. -
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
Officially 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; the U.S. comptroller general was given the right to order spending cuts. -
Westside Community School District V. Mergens
School districts may not prohibit Bible study groups from meeting on school premises if they allow other groups to meet on school premises. -
Reno V. ACLU
Is 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. -
Mitchell V. Helms
The court ruled that it was permissible for loans to be made to religious schools in this manner under Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. -
Bush V. Gore
In the circumstances of this case, any manual recount of votes seeking to meet the December 12 “safe harbor” deadline would be unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Florida Supreme Court reversed and remanded.