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With North Carolina the most recent state to make cockfighting a felony , fans of the bloody sport , many of them Latino immigrants from the Carolinas and the Washington area , are making rural Virginia a cockfighting mecca , animal-rights advocates say . " he asked Solicitor General Paul D. Clement.But he also repeatedly questioned the constitutionality of allowing a school system , especially one that has remedied past discrimination , to make school assignment decisions based " solely on skin color . Our job is to make life better for our fellow Americans , and to help them to build a future of hope and opportunity - - and this is the business before us tonight.A future of hope and opportunity begins with a growing economy , and that is what we have . an agreement for making payments pursuant to an agreement in the nature of a compromise , you ca n't come and say that it has been coerced or is some form of duress . The conservative push on social issues is just what Democrats and liberals , concerned about the future of Roe v. Wade , the 1973 case that recognized a right to abortion , warned against during confirmation hearings for the two Bush appointees now on the court - - Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.In response , Roberts and Alito pledged to take due account of stare decisis , the rule that says the court should avoid overruling past decisions.So this term will be closely watched not only for the results the court reaches , but for how it reaches them . By the mid-1990s more than 90 % of the economy was socialized and 95 % of the country 's manufactured products were made by state-owned enterprises . Just like you have to keep increasing the weights at the gym to make it challenging , you have to do the same with mental activity . " It does n't make a lot of sense in the type of sectarian violence that 's going on to simply put American troops in the middle of it , " said Sen. James Webb ( D-Va . Japan is an extremely homogeneous society with non-Japanese , mostly Koreans , making up less than 1 % of the population . Last week 's bust might help the cause : A bill that would make it a felony to participate in cockfighting is making its way through the General Assembly , and even rural lawmakers who admit to having attended a cockfight or two say they will give it a closer look.The issue is a little tricky because most of those arrested last weekend are Latinos . U.S. immigration laws , such as caps on H-1B visas for skilled workers , are making it harder for foreigners to move to the country , the report said . It takes four votes of the nine to accept a case.There is one reason for the decline from the heavy workloads of the 1980s that everyone agrees on : A 1988 congressional decision made at the court 's behest eliminated a number of mandatory appeals , leaving the justices to pretty much set their own agenda.Beyond that , theories abound . The general conservative trend in politics was tempered by the elections of 1947 , which made the Social Democratic party headed by Tetsu Katayama the dominant force in a two-party coalition government . " There 's a new chief justice and a new court for the first time in a long time , " said Orin S. Kerr , a George Washington University law professor and former Supreme Court clerk who frequently comments about the court.Roberts is " making himself open and present in the legal world , " Kerr said . " Yet his approach contrasted with the last two presidents to address an opposition Congress after their parties lost midterm elections . Those least likely to cut corners were grad students in the social sciences and humanities - - 39 percent said they had broken the rules.McCabe and colleagues Kenneth D. Butterfield of Washington State University and Linda Klebe Trevino of Penn State University collected data from 5,331 business and non-business graduate students at 32 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada during the 2002-03 and 2003-04 academic years.The researchers asked participants how often , if at all , they had engaged in 13 specific behaviors , including cheating on tests and exams , plagiarism , faking a bibliography or submitting work done by someone else.They found that about a third of business graduate students acknowledged committing three or more violations in the previous year . He says the spiral light sources are so efficient that consumers should be forced to use them . " And Roberts said he still finds it a little hard to believe that the office is his , for as long as he wants it . Many of the militarist leaders and generals were tried as war criminals and in 1948 many were convicted and executed , and an attempt was made to break up the zaibatsu . Then-Vice President Al Gore 's legal team involved the courts in the election by asking a state court to order a recount , Kennedy said.Legal scholars and the four dissenting justices have said the Supreme Court should have declined to jump into the case in the first place.In a decision made public on the evening of Dec. 12 , 2000 , the court said the recount violated the Constitution 's Equal Protection Clause because Florida counties were allowed to set their own standard for determining whether to count a vote .