Do parents rights take precedence? Court must thrash out sensitive issue after years of neglect

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Whether Washington state laws' permitting grandparents or any other third party to petition for visitation rights with a child violates parental rights to make child-rearing decisions is discussed. This issue will be considered in Troxel v Granville, scheduled for the US Supreme Court's 1999-2000 term.

Visitation rights (Domestic relations), Grandparent and child, Grandparent-child relations

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U.S. digs in against S&Ls; feds give no ground in court fights over damages to thrifts

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The result of suits by more than 100 savings and loan associations claiming that the government breached contracts designed to ease the thrift financial crisis of the 1980s is discussed. The result of litigation related to Winstar Corp. v. US., the seminal case on this issue, is also analyzed.

Savings & Loan Assns, Savings Institutions, Financial services industry, Financial services, Savings and loan associations, Savings and Loan Associations Bailout Crisis, 1987-

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Backyard blues; hemmed in by industrial plants and two Superfund sites, a New Jersey neighborhood fights back in a closely watched 'environmental discrimination' case

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The environmental racism suit filed by South Camden Citizens in Action claiming an adverse disparate impact on residents by the operation of two Superfund sites is discussed. The residents of this poor, African American-American neighborhood have a disproportionately high rate of respiratory ailments.

Environmental justice

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