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The Gag Must Go! PAI Applauds Senate Vote to Overturn Global Gag Rule
WASHINGTON, July 9 /U.S Newswire/ -- Population Action International PAI today warmly welcomed Senate acceptance of an amendment overturning the global gag rule. WASHINGTON, July 9 /U.S Newswire/ -- Population Action International PAI today warmly welcomed Senate acceptance of an amendment overturning the global gag rule.
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2003-07-09
Forestry issue claims Gag nickel project. (Mining Week).(Falconbridge Ltd. ceases involvement in lateritic nickel project on Gag Island)(Brief Article)
Falconbridge Ltd of Canada has decided to cease further involvement in the lateritic nickel project on Gag Island, Indonesia, owing mainly to a lack of resolution of the Indonesian forestry issue. Falconbridge joined the venture nearly two years ago, Falconbridge Ltd of Canada has decided to...
Research articles 2002-02-01
NAACP fights FCC's Fox gag order. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People petitions the Federal Communications Commission to disclose investigation of Fox Television Stations Inc.)
Rainbow joins petition to remove order cloaking Fox investigation The NAACP has petitioned the FCC to remove the controversial gag order covering the agency's investigation of Fox Television stations. The commission is looking into alleg ...
Tags: FCC
Research articles 1994-12-19
Statement from Peter H. Kostmayer, President, Population Connection; Senate Votes to Repeal the Global Gag Rule
WASHINGTON, July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement from Peter H. Kostmayer, president, Population Connection, regarding the Senate vote to repeal the global gag rule: WASHINGTON, July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement from Peter H. Kostmayer, president, Population Connection, regarding the Senate vote to repeal...
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2003-07-09
International Planned Parenthood Federation Statement on U.S. Senate Action Overturning Global Gag Rule
WASHINGTON, April 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement by Steven W. Sinding, director-general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, on U.S. Senate action overturning the Global Gag Rule. IPPF is the Largest organization in the worldWASHINGTON, April 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement by Steven W....
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2005-04-05
The U.S. Senate passed an amendment by Senators Barbara Boxer and Olympia Snowe that would repeal the Global Gag Rule on international family planning assistance
AFRICA -- The U.S. Senate passed an amendment by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) that would repeal the Global Gag Rule on international family planning assistance. The vote was 52-46. This is particularly important in Africa, where AIDS has run rampant, and the Gag Rule prevented many...
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2005-04-01
Lawyers ask for gag order to be relaxed in Michael Jackson case
LOS ANGELES AFP ? Prosecutors and Michael Jackson's defence lawyers formally asked a judge to relax a tough gag order to allow them to refute media reports that could threaten a fair trial. The requests came four days after Santa Barbara Judge Rodney Melville barred anyone involved in the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, prosecutor
Research articles 2004-01-20
Gag rule
GAG RULE: The U.S. House of Representatives has approved an Affordable Housing Fund, which gives priority to Hurricane Katrina victims. But many community-based nonprofit agencies will not be able to receive the funds if the Senate follows the House's lead. That's because hidden away in HR 1461 is a gag...
Tags: MARKETING, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2005-12-13
Franklin County Circuit Court: Paper fights gag order in Devlin case
Media attorneys have stepped in to respond to a gag order against the New York Post and other media in the Michael Devlin case. A Tuesday filing in Franklin County Circuit Court asked Associate Circuit Judge David Tobben to allow NY Holdings Inc., publisher of the New York...
Tags: attorney, MARKETING, U.S. Circuit Court
Research articles 2007-02-01
Gubernatorial Candidate Objects to South Dakota's Gag Law.
By Scott Waltman, American News, Aberdeen, S.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 20--Ongoing corporate scandals are a prime example of why South Dakota's gag law "stinks," Democratic candidate for governor Jim Abbott said in Aberdeen Monday. Abbott held a...
Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., FINANCE, Government, Republican, SALES, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2002-08-20
NARAL Pro-Choice America Praises Senate for Overturning Bush's Global Gag Rule; NARAL Pro-Choice Scores Vote on Boxer Amendment
WASHINGTON, July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- NARAL Pro-Choice America President Kate Michelman praised Senator Barbara Boxer and 53 Senators who voted for her amendment today overturning President George W. Bush's controversial anti-family planning global gag ruWASHINGTON, July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- NARAL Pro-Choice America President Kate Michelman praised Senator Barbara...
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2003-07-09
Jackson asks judge to decide if prosecutor flouted gag order
LOS ANGELES AFP ? Superstar Michael Jackson asked his trial judge to decide whether the controversial prosecutor in his child molestation case flouted a strict gag order barring him from discussing it. Jackson's lawyers filed documents with Santa Barbara Superior Court asking Judge Rodney Melville to rule whether comments...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, prosecutor, TVs
Research articles 2004-08-02
Schroeder wins gag order against children's charity over adoption
BERLIN AFP — German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has slapped a gag order on a children's charity to keep it from commenting on his recent adoption of a Russian toddler, a spokesman for the group revealed. "Because of the injunction from a Hamburg court, it is not possible at this...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Berlin, chancellor, NETWORKING, Quality, SECURITY, spokesman
Research articles 2004-09-16
Supreme Court strikes down welfare gag
WASHINGTON AP -- Ruling in a free-speech case that made for strange political bedfellows, the Supreme Court said Wednesday that poor people may use federally funded lawyers to sue over the loss of welfare benefits. The court decided by a 5-4 vote that barring Legal Services Corp....
Tags: Government, lawyer, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress, welfare
Research articles 2001-03-01
Jimmy creates a stink over smelly gypsy' gag
TV FUNNYMAN Jimmy Carr has sparked utrage after an anti- Traveller joke backfired on him. The 33-year-old comic, whose family hail from Limerick, joked on a radio show: "The male gypsy moth can smell the female gypsy moth up to seven miles away... and that fact also...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, spokesman, TVs
Research articles 2006-01-08
Gag order sought for US soldier accused of rape, murder of Iraqis
CHICAGO AFP — Lawyers for a US Iraq war veteran accused of raping and murdering an Iraqi woman and killing three of her relatives requested a gag order that would bar even President George W. Bush from commenting on the case. In a motion filed Tuesday, the court-appointed lawyers...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, image, Iraq, lawyer, president
Research articles 2006-07-11
Anti-doping agency considers relaxing gag rule
LOS ANGELES AFP — The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering relaxing its regulations to give the US Anti-Doping Agency a stronger voice in the fight against drug abuse in sports. Dick Pound, chairman of WADA, said Monday a proposed amendment to the World Anti-Doping Code's gag rule would make...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, agency, athlete, France, Government, Regulations
Research articles 2007-04-30
Jolie admits journalist gag order 'excessive'
LOS ANGELES AFP — Angelina Jolie has admitted that a gag order issued to reporters covering a premiere of her new film about murdered journalist Daniel Pearl was "excessive." Jolie's representatives ordered journalists attending a screening of "A Mighty Heart" in New York this week to sign a document...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, journalist
Research articles 2007-06-15
Silverstein on hot seat at WTC trial.(Gag Order Violated)(Larry Silverstein)
WTC LEASEHOLDER Larry Silverstein was banned from the courtroom and faced potential contempt of court charges last week after insurance company attorneys complained that he violated a judge's gag order to not discuss the case in public. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mukasey said...
Tags: Willis Group Holdings Ltd.
Research articles 2004-03-22
Court Denies Southwest Gas/ONEOK Request for Gag Order Against Southern Union Company
Business Editors & Energy/Legal Writers AUSTIN, Texas--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 6, 2000 Southern Union Company (NYSE:SUG) reported that in its Arizona federal action against Southwest Gas Corp. (NYSE:SWX), ONEOK (NYSE:OKE) and others, the court yesterday denied Southwest Gas' and ONEOK's request for a gag order. The request would have...
Tags: Southern Union
Research articles 2000-12-06