A report from Washington on federal appropriation, legislation, and court litigation. (MLF)

This report looks at what happens to individuals arrested at the federal level for drug crimes, including the number of drug offenders who are prosecuted and convicted, the types of sentences they receive, the amount of time they actually serve in prisons, and their rates of recidivism after release from prison. Data are presented which indicate…

This study examines the tension between federal copyright law, which is exclusively enforced for federal courts, and the Eleventh Amendment, which generally prohibits federal courts from entertaining citizen suits brought against a state. The first of four parts of the report describes recent court decisions on copyright infringement by states…

Adapted from papers presented to the Missouri Association of Junior Colleges, October, 1968, and the Southern College Personnel Association, November, 1968.

This compendium reproduces all currently effective federal and state legislation, as well as federal court decisions, regarding bilingual education. States are found to fall into one of four categories: (1) those that mandate instruction in English only for public and nonpublic schools (five states); (2) those that mandate English-only instruction…

The aims and activities of the CITIZENS Communications Center are summarized in this pamphlet. CITIZENS, a Washington, D.C. based resource center, provides technical assistance, research and educational services to citizens and community groups attempting to remind the broadcast industry of its duty to serve the interest of all segments of the…

The argument advanced in this paper maintains that cable television differs from broadcasting, due to the local character of certain cable services; that the current obscenity standards, as articulated by the Supreme Court, mandate community definitions of obscenity; and that such Supreme Court decisions apply to cable television. Separate…

Available from: the Commerce Clearing House, Inc., 4025 W. Peterson Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60646. (IRT)

This article summarizes and discusses various provisions of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 designed to regulate content of and to permit family access to student's school records. The author states that basic inequities have been remedied, and that the questions that remain concern mainly details of interpretation…

The texts are presented of the Supreme Court opinions in the case of the Selective Service System vs. Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, which upheld a federal law requiring college students to register for the draft before receiving federal student aid. Included are the majority opinion by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and dissenting…

A Congressman from California examines the leading proposals for constitutional amendments and statutes restricting the use of busing to achieve school desegregation. Maintains that enactment of the antibusing proposals would not only be unconstitutional, but would undermine much of the judicial progress during the last twenty years. (Author/SF)

Public Law 95-555, which expands the definition of sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, reverses the judicial determination that pregnancy is not a sex-based attribute. Available from School of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the judicial and legislative accomplishments for the handicapped, culminating with the passage of Public Law 94-142. (Author)

To help individuals, groups, and organizations obtain federal government records on themselves and others, this guidebook interprets the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act. The acts provide access to government data, personal records, and business information. The guidebook presents the texts of both acts, with…

The Supreme Court decision upholding the authority of the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the tax-exempt status of a university with discriminatory policies is reviewed and interpreted as protecting the redress of past racial inequities in education against interference even from constitutionally guaranteed free religious exercise. (MJL)