Unelected heads of city departments and agencies, who are in other respects (as democratic theory requires) subject to the control of the people, must, where special protection for homosexuals are [sic] concerned, be permitted to do what they please. In Romerv. Evans,2 the Supreme Court held that Amendment 2 to the Colorado constitution violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Ame...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have completed an estimate of the direct spending and revenue effects of an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010. The amendment discussed in this letter (hereafter called “the reconciliation proposal”) is the one that was made public on March 18, 2010, as ...

INTRODUCTION................................................................................... 127 I. THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF FOURTH AMENDMENT INJUNCTIONS ............................................................................ 129 II. THE DIFFICULTY WITH BROAD FOURTH AMENDMENT INJUNCTIONS ............................................................................ 133 CONCLUSION.............

staff) is publishing this regular biweekly notice. The Act requires the Commission publish notice of any amendments issued, or proposed to be issued and grants the Commission the authority to issue and make immediately effective any amendment to an operating license upon a determination by the Commission that such amendment involves no significant hazards consideration, notwithstanding the pend...

This Comment addresses the present gap in insanity-defense laws created by the defense’s abolition and offers an Eighth Amendment based remedy. Part I reviews the history and evolution of the insanity defense in Anglo-American law. It then describes how four states have statutorily abolished the defense. It concludes with a discussion of Clark v. Arizona, the Court’s most recent decision on the...

Since Marbury v. Madison (1803) 1 , the role of the Supreme Court as the final arbiter of the meaning of the U.S. Constitution has been largely accepted by both mass and elite publics. However, on occasion those interpretations have been the subject of heated dispute, often with the states, the executive, or the legislative branch. The Court's 5–4 decision in Texas v. Johnson (1989) 2 raised su...

Effectiveness of castor (Ricinus communis) and velvetbean (Mucuna deeringiana) amendments was tested for suppression of the root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne arenaria) and growth of okra (Hibiscus esculentus) in three greenhouse experiments. Regression analysis was used to relate nematode population data or plant growth responses to various rates (0, 1, 2, 4, or 8 g/560 cm(3) soil pot) of each am...

The experiment of artificial afforestation combining with soil amendment was carried out to investigate the effects of soil amendment on antimony (Sb) chemical forms, and its bioavailability in Chinese antimony mining. This research provides the technical basis for ecological remediation of Sb contaminated soils. The results showed that the soil pH values increased with the increasing of discha...

A field experiment was conducted on the effect of biochar (BC) amendment on Cd uptake by rice (Oryza sativa L.) in a contaminated paddy in 2009 and 2010. BC was applied as a basal soil amendment before rice transplantation in 2009 at rates of 0, 10, 20, 40t ha, and rice yield and Cd uptake were monitored in both 2009 and 2010. The BC amendment significantly increased soil pH by 0.15-0.33 units ...

Unelected heads of city departments and agencies, who are in other respects (as democratic theory requires) subject to the control of the people, must, where special protection for homosexuals are [sic] concerned, be permitted to do what they please. In Romerv. Evans,2 the Supreme Court held that Amendment 2 to the Colorado constitution violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Ame...