ADA protects state inmates from discrimination rules
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Americans with Disabilities Act covers state prisons and prisoners. The decision allows a former inmate to sue over exclusion from a boot camp program that could have shortened his sentence. The ruling invites further inmate litigation while enforcing reasonable modifications to access prison programs.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Kent Scheidegger
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation
Ronald Yeskey
Donald Specter
Antonin Scalia
Yeskey
98 year old earns diploma in Cape Cod ceremony
Eugenie Garside, 98, received her high school diploma from Nauset Regional High School in Eastham, after years of tutoring and rehabilitation. The former nanny left the third grade in 1909 to care for siblings, and the nursing home staff helped arrange the unlikely graduation, drawing cheers from student tutors and staff alike. She plans to rest and be lazy after the ceremony as she approaches her 99th birthday.
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Boston
Eugenie Garside
Miss Garside
Pleasant Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Brewster
Nauset Regional High School
Eastham
Cyrena Wooster
Richmond High School Shooting Injures Two
A 14 year old student opened fire in the hallway during finals wounding a basketball coach and a volunteer aide. The injuries are not life threatening. The suspect was arrested and charged as an adult with two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of using a firearm in a felony. He is held at the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center awaiting a detention hearing.
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Richmond
Theresa Gooch
Mir mission on hold as budget woes delay planned descent
Russia’s space program says it cannot fund the planned controlled descent of the Mir space station. A cargo ship was to fire thrusters to nudge Mir four miles closer to Earth, but funds ran short, delaying the maneuver. Mir is already descending slowly and could reach the target early next month.
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Moscow
Mir Space Station
Viktor Blagov
Mission Control Center
Star-Tass
Mir
Earth
Mr. Blagov
Space Agency
Blagov
Space
Bruce Willis Calls Dole a Nitwit in George Magazine
Bruce Willis labels Bob Dole a nitwit in an interview with George magazine. He praises Louis Farrakhan as a hero of mine for standing up against inequality and notes he switched to the Republican Party in 1992, supported Bush for re election, and sat out 1996 between Dole and Clinton.
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New York
Bruce Willis
George Magazine
Bob Dole
Louis Farrakhan
John F Kennedy Jr
Farrakhan
Mr. Willis
Nation of Islam
Willis
Bush
Bill Clinton
Dole
Clinton
Hyundai founder Chung Ju Yung recalls boyhood flight to south
In a memoir excerpt Chung Ju Yung, later founder of Hyundai, recalls fleeing his impoverished North Korean home at 17 after selling a cow and taking money south to study law. Now 82, he returns north to herd 500 cattle as a symbolic gift across the border. The story contrasts his early poverty with his later wealth and industrial empire.
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Seoul
South Korea
South
Chung Ju Yung
Hyundai Group
North Korea
Mr. Chung
Chung
Hyundai
Milosevic agrees to Kosovo peace talks with Rugova leader
Russian Interfax report says Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic will meet Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova to pursue immediate negotiations. Yeltsin and Primakov referenced the talks amid NATO pressure over Kosovo violence and mass displacement.
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Kosovo
Moscow
Slobodan Milosevic
Yevgeny Primakov
Interfax
Milosevic
Ibrahim Rugova
Rugova
Boris Yeltsin
NATO
Albania
Macedonia
U.S
Richard Holbrooke
Washington
Kosovo Liberation Army
Fehmi Agani
KLA
Yeltsin
Kremlin
Poor Women Denied Epidurals Over Cash at Northridge Hospital
In a Los Angeles lawsuit seven low income laboring women were reportedly denied epidurals when cash payments were requested by an anesthesiologist. The suit alleges Dr Lori Burke refused care citing Medi Cal underpayments, prompting hospital and state health department scrutiny.
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Los Angeles
Ozzie Chavez
Catherine Beatty
Old England
Chavez
Northridge Hospital Medical Center
Lori Burke
David J. Birnbach
Society For Obstetric Anesthesiology and
Perinatology
Larry Wong
Burke
Medi-Cal
Northridge
Barry Silberman
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Marjorie Rifkin
American Civil Liberties Union
National Prison Project
Jewsea
Nitwit
North
Egypt
Cairo
Police Academy
Sohag
Anes
National Association of Letter Carriers
Milwaukee
Nashville
Tenn
Hood College
Frederick, Maryland
Hood
Rosemont Avenue
Frederick
Hood Edu
Eltsin
Primakov
Defense
Igor Sergeyev
Vyacheslav Trubnikov
Foreign Intelligence Service
Russian Foreign Ministry
Vladimir Rakhmanin
Russia
Lea Brooks
California Department of Health
GS Communications
QVC
Manchester
Sharpsburg
Keedysville
Et Hearth & Patio
Frederick Towne Mall
Stover
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