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Air traffic controllers strike
The air traffic controllers' strike of 1981 has been viewed as one of the major labor strikes in recent history.This labor strike showed the members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association's concern with the working conditions they were provided with by the FAA.This strike was not a strike of abruptness and without warning.PATCO was having problems & complaints with how the FAA was running their operations & treating their employees many years before this actual strike. -
mitchell v. helms
Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 allowed for loaning educational material and equipment to public and private schools, with one of the requirements for the loan being that the loaned items had to be neutral and non-ideological.In a 6-3 decision the court ruled that it was permissible for loans to be made to religious schools in this manner under Chapter 2. -
equal access act
The Equal Access Act is a US fedreal law passed in 1984 to compel federally-funded secondary schools to provide equal access to extracurricular clubs. Lobbied for by religious groups who wanted to ensure students the right to conduct Bible study programs during lunch and after school, it is also essential in litigation regarding the right of students to form gay-straight alliances. -
gramm-rudman-hollings act
The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987 were, according to U.S. Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, "the first binding constraint imposed on federal spending, and its spending caps have become part of every subsequent U.S. budget -
iran-contra scandal
The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in Nov1986. During the Reagan administration,senior Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran,the subject of an arms embargo.Some U.S. officials also hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.Under the Boland Amendment,further funding of the Contras by the Reagan had been prohihibited. -
westside community school district
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union is a US supreme court case in which all nine Justices of the Court voted to strike down anti-indecency provisions of the Communications Decency Act,finding they violated the freedom of speech provisions of the First Amendment. Two Justices concurred in part and dissented in part to the decision. This was the first major Supreme Court ruling regarding the regulation of materials distributed via Internet. -
bush v.gore
Bush v. Gore is the landmark US supreme court desc.decision that effectively resolved the 2000 presidential election in favor of George W. Bush.Only eight days earlier, the United States Supreme Court had unanimously decided the closely related case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, U.S.and only three days earlier, had preliminarily halted the recount that was occurring in Florida.
