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" But MedImmune contends that a federal law enacted in 1936 permits a party to take a contract dispute to court without having to break the agreement first . " Financial regulation may scare some businesses away , but for many investors , it offers an extra measure of protection that makes it a competitive plus , " said Amy Borrus , deputy director of the Council of Institutional Investors . " The specific rule against naming a candidate - - 30 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election - - is one of the bright lines in the act governing the role special interest groups may play in the election and , to its supporters , one of the act 's virtues . Maybe they think if they photograph us , they can scare us away . " It is our belief a reasonable Supreme Court will reverse most , if not all , of the Roe decisions , and any legislation that brings Virginia in line with that decision we would support , " said Victoria Cobb , president of the Family Foundation , a socially conservative group . " That argument drew a sharp response from Stevens , who noted that the alternative procedure , dilation and evacuation , requires the dismemberment of the fetus before removal . First Amendment rights are threatened in the state of Washington , the Supreme Court was told yesterday , but it will be up to the justices to decide who needs protection.The Washington Education Association , the state 's largest teachers union , said its freedoms would be endangered by a state law that would increase restrictions on the union 's ability to use workers ' money for political causes . Supreme Court clerks are routinely given a signing bonus equivalent to a justice 's annual salary when they join one of Washington 's top law firms after a year at the court , and Roberts pointed out that beginning lawyers often make as much as the experienced federal judges before whom they practice.Some law professors and other legal activists have said the threat to the judiciary by stagnant salaries is overblown , and that those who want to be judges are n't drawn by compensation.But Roberts and others - - Justice Antonin Scalia has also recently called for increases - - say it is affecting the type of lawyer who wants to be a judge . " The ultimate decision is likely to be one of the most defining of the court headed by the new chief justice , John G. Roberts Jr ., and a powerful statement about where the nation stands more than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education demanded an end to segregated schools.The court , encouraged by the Bush administration , has grown increasingly distrustful of racial classifications , and it reached out to take up the cases challenging schools in Seattle and Louisville even though appeals courts had upheld them as constitutional.Because of the stakes , the day at the court took on a feeling of great import - - there were demonstrations on the plaza out front , some people camped overnight in freezing temperatures to secure a spot in the courtroom , and the lines for members of the bar began forming before dawn . By Richard MorinThursday , May 11 , 2006 ; Page A02When it comes to crime , legalized casino gambling seemed to be a surprisingly good bet : Local unemployment went down , tax revenue went up and crime did n't increase when a casino opened . Senate Republicans Prevent Vote on Minimum-Wage BillSenate Republicans blocked Democrats yesterday from fulfilling a campaign promise to increase the federal minimum wage , demanding that the pay increase be paired with a tax break for small businesses.On a vote of 54 to 43 , Democrats fell six short of the 60 needed to end debate and go to passage of a House-approved bill to raise the minimum wage for the first time in a decade - - boosting it over two years to $ 7.25 per hour from $ 5.15 . The two meticulously sifted through the Congressional Record to identify key claims made by each side to support its case and to rebut the assertions of opponents . " If you look at all the briefs , they are all written to Justice Kennedy , " said Benjamin W. Bull , chief counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund , an antiabortion legal organization.Solicitor General Paul D. Clement quotes Kennedy 's Stenberg dissent 22 times in his briefs defending the federal law , which was adopted by a wide margin in Congress and signed by Bush in 2003.Bush 's conservative appointees , Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr ., have thin track records on abortion , and some court-watchers say they may not be sure to vote to support the ban.As chief justice , Roberts might have institutional concerns if the court appears to abandon a major abortion ruling that has been on the books for only six years . Bacolod 's findings indicate that that would significantly increase the percentage of smart women - - and men - - who become teachers.Equal-Opportunity AfflictionMen are as likely as women to be compulsive buyers , a condition that affects about one in 20 adults in the United States , according to Lorrin M. Koran , an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University 's medical school.Koran and his colleagues surveyed 2,513 adults in 2004 and found that 6 percent of women and 5.5 percent of men exhibited symptoms of hard-core compulsive shopping : irresistible and often senseless impulses to buy that they felt largely powerless to resist . Long before Bush arrived in the House chamber to deliver his remarks , Democratic leaders and allied interest groups rushed out statements blasting his domestic proposals as rehashed ideas , empty rhetoric or flawed concepts that would create other problems .