Cracking down on teens and taxi cabs; saying it wants to protect shoppers, mall managers incur wrath of kids and cabbies

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A requirement that youth at the Mall of America near Minnesota's Twin Cities be accompanied by adults during prime evening hours and a limit on the number of cab companies to use the mall's taxi stand have sparked controversy over whether the mall was restricting public access and violating the rights of teenagers. The limit on the number of cab companies came about because of an allegedly tense and too competitive environment, the chaperone policy for teenagers so that they would not engage in disruptive behavior. The cabdrivers have filed suit.

Management, Prevention, Shopping centers, Juvenile delinquency, Taxicabs, Breach of the peace

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Elder law; lawyers need to protect clients from the increasing incentives for providers to restrict care

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The Clinton administration's health care reform plan provides added incentives for the health care industry to ration care. Elder law specialists would need to help their clients protect themselves in such an environment. Moreover, the plan's procedures for appealing Medicare coverage decisions are too lengthy and involved to ensure fairness. On the good side, the plan envisions coverage for some kinds of home care as well as an easing of Medicaid's 'spend-down' requirements before long-term care is covered.

Health aspects, Aged, Elderly, Practice, Health care rationing, Elder law

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The Clean Water Act, by its terms, does not directly cover wildlife, but the Army Corps of Engineers is trying to extend the act to protect migratory birds

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The US Army Corps of Engineers is trying to protect migratory birds with the Clean Water Act of 1977. Courts have, however, not addressed whether the US Congress meant the term navigable waters to cover such birds if no evidence of effect on water quality is present. To the corps, such waters are navigable if migratory birds could use them. The act deals with water quality and not wildlife protection, so an analysis should start with whether a given activity affects navigable waters.

National Security, Army Corps of Engineers, Laws, regulations and rules, Birds, Protection of, Bird conservation, Water quality

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