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The NYT front reports that the Massachusetts Supreme Court has upheld the reduced sentence of 279 days for au pair Louise Woodward.
South Carolina has no referendum right, so the Supreme Court canceled the vote and upheld the ban.
The Supreme Court upheld state campaign donation limits.
The Fourth Amendment spin is that the court, having upheld a series of drug-testing laws (for railroad crews, customs-service workers, and student athletes), finally encountered one too preposterous to tolerate.
This serves to distinguish §504(a)(16) from any of the Title X program restrictions upheld in Rust, and to place it beyond any congressional funding condition approved in the past by this Court.