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U.S. 66, 78 (1975) (internal quotation marks omitted): (1) whether"the plaintiff [is] one of the class for whose especial benefit the statute was enacted"; (2) whether "there [is] any indication of legislative intent, explicit or implicit, either to create such a remedy or to deny one"; (3) whether "it [is] consistent with the underlying purposes of the legislative scheme to imply such a remedy"; and (4) whether "the cause of action [is] one traditionally relegated to state law, in an area basically the concern of the States, so that it would be inappropriate to infer a cause of action based solely on federal law."
(Reagan's advisers, usually so obeisant to "original intent" when interpreting the Constitution, were more cavalier on the subject of war powers.)
The WP reports inside that a coalition of Hispanic groups has announced its intent to conduct a yearlong boycott of the four major networks over its dissatisfaction concerning the under-representation of Latinos on television.
It seems that the President-for-Life of Côte d'Ivoire, son Excellence Félix Houphouet-Boigny, is a confirmed and impassioned francophile, and seems intent on converting his agricultural nation into a sort of Paris-on-the-Guinea.
If an undercover cop bought cocaine from a person carrying a kilogram of the drug, the seller could not plead entrapment, even if coercion were involved in the sale, since his intent to sell was clear.