New York courts have said the state constitution guarantees children the opportunity for a "sound basic education, " which courts have defined as a "meaningful high school education" that will prepare them to be competitive in a global economy and productive citizens at home.

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The courts' basic attitude has been that people in public spaces have no reasonable expectation of privacy, so taking their pictures in those spaces is permissible, says Harvard Law's Jonathan Zittrain.

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Mr. Rebell said his intention is to persuade lawmakers in Albany to reevaluate whether the state is providing every student with the opportunity for the "sound basic education" that courts said is guaranteed by the state constitution.

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In July, I urged Congress to work with the administration to fashion a uniform set of rules for these cases, expressing two basic concerns with leaving these matters to the courts.

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Confronted by the anarchic warlordism that followed, many Somalis freely submitted to the judicial authority of the courts and took advantage of their ability to offer basic social services.

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In the past, ultra-orthodox and national-religious Jews in Israel have felt so estranged from the judiciary's largely liberal mainstream that they have set up their own arbitration courts, applying laws from the Torah, Judaism's basic text, sometimes with the tacit sanction of the state.

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Fear of being sued and basic decency may keep U.S. news sources from running the photos, but courts have decided before in rulings about crime scene photos that privacy rights do not extend to the dead.

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