Generally, those reasonable regulations would be about criminal background, background of mental instability, basically the ones that are outlined in the opinion of the judge who wrote the Parker decision, Judge Silverman.

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We'll also learn which of the dozens of public-opinion polls were right and which ones were way off base.

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King did agree to toss several individual claims involved in the multi-state litigation (to see which ones, scroll down to page 49 of the opinion.) But clearly the defendant banks were hoping their preemption argument would see all the cases thrown out of court for good.

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But rational calculations are not the only ones that influence public opinion, especially in the supercharged atmosphere of a first-ever referendum in a politically and ideologically divided society.

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As for Mr Bush's opinion-poll numbers (the ones which show that almost half the population disapproves of the way he is doing his job), they are no worse than Bill Clinton's in September 1995.

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