• Labour's health spokewoman Jackie Baillie's amendment to the health secretary's amendment was passed as well.

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  • State courts can impose limits on social media as a condition of a sex offender's probation or parole, but a "blanket ban" on Internet use violates the First Amendment's guarantee of free expression, the judges found.

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  • The amendment's framers clearly figured that enforcement would focus on the former Confederate states, Mr. Verrilli said.

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  • The claim is that the one man, one woman definition violates the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection.

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  • Lower courts have issued conflicting decisions on whether warrantless GPS monitoring violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches.

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  • Some have interpreted the Second Amendment's affirmation of the right to bear arms as a barrier to reasonable regulation.

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  • He acknowledged that legal interpretations of the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment's protection of online commentary are still evolving.

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  • Such a burden, they say, smacks into the Fifth Amendment's safeguards against government seizure of private property without just compensation.

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  • Even so, now that the hopes of fundamentalists have been raised, the amendment's failure might provoke as much trouble as its enactment.

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  • If courts adopted this reasoning, what would stop them from limiting the First Amendment's speech and press clause to the use of 18th-century communication technology?

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  • And the third case we're waiting for is about public displays of the Ten Commandments and whether those displays violate the First Amendment's protection against establishment of religion.

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  • One of the amendment's proposers, Mr Givan, said he "regretted" the tactics deployed by Sinn Fein and how the outcome of the vote had "shamefully been pre-determined".

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  • Which makes sense: The Fourth Amendment's protections don't wax or wane according to the size of the space to be searched or the amount of information to be seized.

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  • There, the justices are weighing whether the University of Texas' affirmative-action program, which the school says can give an edge to some minority applicants, violates the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause.

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  • Mr. Reagan, however, ensured that Interpol was subject to constitutional protections (notably, the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures) and U.S. laws (including the Freedom of Information Act).

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  • Inclusion of Lithuania, along with Eastern Europe, in a new Contingency Energy Fund (CEF) administered by the G-7 or International Energy Agency (possibly established through an amendment to S.2040, the SEED program for Eastern Europe).

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  • Emphasizing the Fourth Amendment's "close connection to property, " Justice Scalia wrote that even a small trespass, if committed in "an attempt to find something or to obtain information, " constituted a "search" under the Fourth Amendment.

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  • Congress should enact the Secret Evidence Repeal Act, a bipartisan measure that would bar the use of secret evidence in American courts and reaffirm the Fifth Amendment's guarantee that no individual be jailed without due process.

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  • At first, few realised the amendment's significance.

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  • Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said that as conceived in the 18th century, the Fourth Amendment's protection of "persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" would extend to private property such as an automobile.

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  • The House then handily turned aside an amendment offered by Rep. Harry Johnston (D-FL) that would have replaced the Kyl Amendment's firm, clear and statutory requirements with a sense of the Congress resolution that merely exhorted the Soviets to behave differently.

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  • Scottish Labour's amendment expressing concerns over the government's Curriculum for Excellence was passed.

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  • Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur's amendment, which said the UK Government's plans for a Green Investment Bank to fund low-carbon transport and energy schemes would benefit Scotland's efforts to build a low-carbon economy, was passed without opposition with 75 MSPs voting for it and with 46 MSPs abstaining.

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  • Mr Lunn, however, said his party would not accept the SDLP's amendment as he viewed it as dissolving the motion's original proposal.

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  • McCain's amendment would have to get in line behind dozens of others the Senate's voting on for the annual budget in a ritual known as votorama.

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  • Conservative health spokesman Murdo Fraser's amendment, which welcomed the commitment from the UK coalition government to reverse Labour's increase in national insurance preventing cuts to the budget of the NHS in Scotland, was carried with 77 MSPs voting for it, 48 against and with one abstention.

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  • Danny Kinahan, who had been due to sum up for the UUP amendment, offered to clear up the confusion hanging over the debate by withdrawing his party's amendment.

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  • She urged peers to support Labour's amendment deleting the clauses allowing for the private patient income cap to be raised, claiming the government's plans sent "the wrong message".

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  • As a result, last week's amendment will substantially reduce the cost of aluminum-based car components, which will likely accelerate the industry's plans to replace vast amounts of steel currently used in cars with aluminum.

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  • Lord Rosser withdrew Labour's amendment without a vote, but signalled he would return to the issue at a later date in the bill's progress through the Lords.

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