By JESSE McKINLEY and JOHN SCHWARTZ Published: August 4, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO — Saying that it discriminates against gay men and women, a federal judge in San Francisco struck down California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, handing supporters of...
University of Iowa officials have mixed expectations on whether the number of alcohol infractions incurred by students will go up or down with the new 21-only ordinance on the books. The UI Dean of Students office investigated 101 alcohol consumption and possession...
Peter DreierE.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College Posted: August 6, 2010 01:31 PM Major court decisions on controversial social issues are sometimes ahead of their times. That was certainly the case with judicial rulings decades ago that...
By JEFFREY ROSEN Published: July 19, 2010 Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a...
By ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATIE ZEZIMA Published: July 24, 2010 The accident that killed Kathryn Underdown had all the markings of a drunken-driving case. The car that hit her as she rode her bicycle one May evening in Miller Place, N.Y., did not stop, the police said,...
BY TERESA ANN BOECKEL Daily Record/Sunday News Updated: 07/10/2010 11:27:54 PM EDT York County’s district attorney likes having the option; defense lawyers would like to see the mandatory minimum repealed. Most of the City of York falls within a drug-free school...
