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Whether Physician-Assisted Suicide Serves a "Legitimate Medical Purpose" Under DEA Regulations, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Jun. 27, 2001

, practice.and did, properly resolve was that the dispensing of controlled substances by a, physician to assist a suicide did not have a legitimate medical purpose within the, meaning of its own regulation, notwithstanding the fact that a single state chose to, legalize physician-assisted suicide.

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The President's Constitutional Authority to Conduct Military Operations Against Terrorists and Nations Supporting Them, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Sep. 25, 2001

The Presidents Constitutional Authority to Conduct, Military Operations Against Terrorists and, Nations Supporting Them, The President has broad constitutional power to take military action in response to the terrorist attacks, on the United States on September 11, 2001. U.S. Const.

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The President's Authority to Remove the Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Jul. 31, 2001

Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654, 690-91 (1988). The purely executive, functions of the Chairman qua Chairman also help explain why Congress would, intend different conditions for the removal of the Chairman as opposed to removal, of the Commissioners generally.

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The President's Authority to Make a Recess Appointment to the National Labor Relations Board, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Aug. 31, 2001

The Presidents Authority to Make a Recess, Appointment to the National Labor Relations Board, The President may make a recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board of a person, whose term as a Senate-confirmed member expired during the current recess of the Senate.

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Reimbursing Transition-Related Expenses Incurred Before the Administrator of General Services Ascertained Who Were the Apparent Successful Candidates for the Office of President and Vice President, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Jan. 17, 2001

As you have, acknowledged, before the Administrator could use any Transition Act funds to pay, any such obligation of the President-elect or Vice-President-elect, he would have, to confirm that the obligations were bona fide Transition expenses.The Administrator of General Services .

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Regulation of an Inmate's Access to the Media, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Apr. 13, 2001

§ 540.40 (warden may restrict visiting when necessary to ensure the security, and good order of the institution); In fact, in three separate contexts, the Supreme Court has upheld, prison regulations that prevented the media from conducting interviews with, inmates. Turner, 482 U.S. at 89-91.

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Post-Employment Restriction of 12 U.S.C. § 1812(e), (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Sep. 04, 2001

2001 Letter).Chairman, FDIC at 1 (Nov. 7, 1961). Because the Director of OTS resigned at the Presidents, request, she has served a full term within the meaning of the statute as our, Office has interpreted it, and she may claim the benefit of the exception to the, two-year post-employment bar.

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Obligation to Sell Governors Island, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Apr. 24, 2001

Obligation to Sell Governors Island, The statutory requirement that the Administrator of General Services sell Governors Island at fair, market value continues to apply notwithstanding the Presidents subsequent reservation of Gover-, nors Island as a national monument under the Antiquities Act.

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NOAA Corps Eligibility for Professional Liability Insurance Costs Reimbursement, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Jan. 19, 2001

Treasury Act § 636(b)., We also note that one prominent federal court of appeals decision has expressly, declined to borrow the title 5 definition of employee in construing a statute, that explicitly incorporated title 5s definition of agency but not its definition of, officer and employee.

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Legality of the Use of Military Commissions to Try Terrorists, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Nov. 06, 2001

and the civil courts are closed.32, See also Quirin, 317 U.S. at 30, 35 (explaining that by permitting trial of offenses against the, law of war, Congress had incorporated by reference the common law applied by military tribunals, and principles recognized in practice both here and abroad);

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Investment of Federal Trust Funds for Cheyenne River and Lower Brule Sioux, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Jan. 19, 2001

Investment of Federal Trust Funds for Cheyenne River, and Lower Brule Sioux, Congress intended the term interest in title VI of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to, have its usual and customary meaning: the coupon rate of the debt obligation.Obligations issued . 64 (1996) (1996 Opinion).

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Indirect Aid to Faith-Based Organizations Under the Charitable Choice Provisions of the Community Solutions Act of 2001, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Jun. 22, 2001

Indirect Aid to Faith-Based Organizations Under the, Charitable Choice Provisions of the, Community Solutions Act of 2001, The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment does not necessitate that the charitable choice, provisions of H.R. Witters v. Washing-, ton Dept of Servs.

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General Services Administration Use of Government Funds for Advertising, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Jan. 19, 2001

The publicity or, propaganda rider does not forbid an agency from providing information about its, programs and activities, as long as the agency is not aggrandizing itself. The available opinions concern the use of, appropriations to advertise to the general public, not to other agencies.

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Emoluments Clause and World Bank, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: May 24, 2001

Emoluments Clause and World Bank, An international organization in which the United States participates, such as the International Bank for, Reconstruction and Development, is not a foreign State under the Emoluments Clause, U.S., Const.

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Effect of the Alienage Restriction in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 on the Provision of Stafford Act Assistance in the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Jan. 19, 2001

If foreign assistance refers to assis-, tance given to non-U.S. citizens in foreign countries, then arguably this provision, suggests that Congress intended the alienage restriction to apply to the receipt of, federal public benefits abroad other than approved programs of foreign assistance.

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Duration of the Term of a Member of the Civil Rights Commission, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Oct. 31, 2001

Duration of the Term of a Member of the, Civil Rights Commission, A member of the Civil Rights Commission, appointed when a predecessor died before the end of his, term, serves only the remainder of her predecessors term. In 1994, Congress deleted this provision. 1994 Opinion at 1.

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Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest of Members of FDA Advisory Panels, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Oct. 05, 2001

1, We have not been asked to, and do not, opine on whether a drug advisory panel member must, publicly disclose a conflict of interest that the member may have with a matter to be undertaken by the, panel if the member, instead of seeking a waiver, chooses not to take part at all in the matter.

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Direct Aid to Faith-Based Organizations Under the Charitable Choice Provisions of the Community Solutions Act of 2001, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Jun. 25, 2001

, Section 703(a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C., § 2000e-2(a), generally prohibits employers from engaging in employment, discrimination on the basis of an individuals race, color, religion, sex, or national, origin.educational institution, or society of its activities.

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Designation of Acting Associate Attorney General, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Aug. 07, 2001

, Because the President has not designated another person as the Acting Associate Attorney General, under the Vacancies Reform Act, Mr. Perry, as the Principal Deputy, is required to perform the, functions and duties of the office of the Associate Attorney General in an acting capacity.

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Constitutionality of the Rohrabacher Amendment, (2001)
United States Attorneys General Filed: Jul. 25, 2001

At the same time, the Amendment also encroaches on the Presidents, authority to breach or terminate the Peace Treaty (again, without deploying, Congresss power of abrogation) by seeking to cause an outcome in the litigation, over the Treaty that would place the United States in violation of it.

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