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Polygamy not protected by constitution, Utah court rules.(Around The States)(Brief Article)
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October 1, 2004
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The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that the state's law banning polygamy does not violate a practicing polygamist's First Amendment religious liberty.
Tom Green, 55, was convicted in 2001 of violating the state law against polygamy but appealed the conviction arguing that the bigamy ban is a violation of his right to free exercise of religion.
Utah Assistant Attorney General Laura Dupaix disagreed, telling the court that the state bigamy statute applied to all individuals who engage in polygamy regardless of their religious intentions and that the bigamy law ...
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Canadian Artist and Naturalist Robert Bateman Receives Niagara Escarpment Lifetime Achievement Award.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News
; ...naturalist Robert Bateman receives the Niagara Escarpment Commission's Niagara Escarpment Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday, April...former Ontario Premier Bill Davis and Niagara Escarpment Commission Chair Don Scott, the award recognizes...
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Town split over use of Niagara escarpment
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Town split over use of Niagara escarpment Residents weighing development, preservation...of the geologically significant Niagara Escarpment, known locally as the Ledge. Residents along the escarpment, which runs through northern Fond du...
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DOING LESS WITH LESS.(Niagra Escarpment Commission survives on low funding)
Magazine article from: Alternatives Journal
; ...streamlining has weakened the Niagara Escarpment Commission's ability to protect one...some environmentalists, the Niagara Escarpment Commission (NEC) is still in place...enough to serve its mandate. The Niagara Escarpment is one of only six World Biosphere Reserves...
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Internal tide radiation from Mendocino escarpment
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography
; ...tides are observed near Mendocino Escarpment in full-depth profile time series...barotropic tide interacting with the escarpment. A baroclinic energy flux of 7 kW m^sup -1^ radiates from the escarpment, corresponding to 3% of the 220...
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Tracing the connections among municipal amalgamation, community identity, and planning for the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario. (Ideas).
Magazine article from: Environments
; ...advisors. Current research on the Niagara Escarpment, a world renowned landscape feature...already tenuous circumstances of the Escarpment's legislated protection by constraining...such heritage, including the Niagara Escarpment, will depend on respect for existing...
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Escarpment rocks on.(CAMPAIGNS)(environmental advocacy for Niagara Escarpment through music )(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Alternatives Journal
; ...the first time since the Niagara Escarpment Plan came into effect, according...Whitbread, manager of the Niagara Escarpment Commission (NEC), the Ontario...citizen advocacy group, Protecting Escarpment Rural Land, fought the proposal...
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 "The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario)")
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'Legacy' track runs into rule book; Escarpment officials oppose BMX motocross site that keen founder, 20, died creating on private land.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario)
; ...track, are in a fight with the Niagara Escarpment Commission, which wants the site levelled...club members to the scene until the escarpment authorities intervened. Now supporters...who represents Halton Region on the escarpment commission, said the track doesn...
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 "The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario)")
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Escarpment benefit gets a little Feist-y.(Go)
Newspaper article from: The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario)
; ...lineup for the second annual I Love The Escarpment benefit concert Sept. 20 in north Burlington...benefit. Leslie (Feist) lives on the escarpment, north of Toronto, and has an interest...of the founders of PERL (Protecting Escarpment Rural Land), which was formed in opposition...
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Escarpment quarry opponents hail report; Its authors agree significant wetland would be lost.(GTA)
Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario)
; ...Funston Sarah Harmer has been singing the Escarpment Blues, composed to protest plans for...start a citizens' group, Protecting Escarpment Rural Land, to oppose the bid by Nelson...an 80-hectare site on the Niagara Escarpment, designated a World Biosphere Reserve...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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MANLIUS ESCARPMENT LIKELY TO BE DECIDED.(Neighbors East)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; ...will vote on designating the Onondaga Escarpment a critical environmental area after...Frateschi said the town should define the escarpment in the broadest possible way in the...Conservation was consulted on how to define the escarpment's boundaries in the legal notice...
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