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Air-traffic contollers strike
When thousands of air-traffic controllers went on strike is when Ronald Reagan reused to negotiate with PATCO and the workers striking were fired for violating a law forbiding them to strike. -
Equal Access Act
Required public secondary schools to allow any group equal access to school facilities. -
Iran-Contra scandal
Political scandal under President Reagan involving the use of money from secret arms sales to Iran to illegaly support the Contras in Nicaragua. -
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
The first binding constraint imposed on federal spending, and its spending caps have become part of every subsequent U.S. budget. -
Westside Community School District v. Mergens
Allowing students to meet in noncurricular clubs on campus and discuss religion is constitutional because it does not amount to state sponsership of a religion. -
Reno v. ACLU
1996 Federal Communications decency Act violated the 1st Amendment by not clearly describing which internet material were "indecent." -
Mitchell v. Helms
A federal law providing funds for educational materials to public and private schools does not violate the 1st Amendment. -
Bush v. Gore
The supreme court held that the Florida supreme Court's plan for recounting ballots was unconstitutional.