European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 19 2007 stars an d stripes Page 13 in the states unbelted n j governor set a poor example in 91 Mph crash Many say by Tom Hester or the associated press Trenton no last year new Jersey Law officers ticketed 271182 people for not wearing seat belts in violation of state Law this year one violator will stand out gov Jon s Corzine who want wearing a seat Belt when he was critically injured in an automobile Accident last week David Wald spokesman for state attorney general Stuart Rabner  say Why state police assigned to protect the governor didst insist Conine obey the seat Belt Law As always we urge All Drivers and passengers to Wear seat belts Wald said Corzine 60 broke multiple Bones in the wreck and remains hospitalized in intensive care breathing with the help of a Respi Rator there was another revelation tuesday that is Likely to add to talk about the governors Acci Dent co Zines Sun was going 91 Mph in a 65 Mph zone just be fore the crash according to state police Many people Are amazed Corzine didst follow the Law and buckle up with All due respect to the governor and with Complete compas Sion in mind for the injuries he sustained he has set a poor exam ple said David Weinstein aaa mid Atlantic spokesman the governor in fact has been a proponent of seat Belt usage new Jersey Law requires Drivers and front seat Passen Gers to Wear seat belts violators face a Fine state police said trooper Rob Ert Rasinski co Zines Driver was wearing a seat Belt and received minor injuries in the wreck while Corzine aide Samantha Gordon was Riding in the Back seat with out a seat Belt and received minor injuries the Accident report notes Only Corzine was thrown within the vehicle during the Impact Tom Shea co Zines chief of staff has said the governor should be ticketed if he want buckled up Corzine High court upholds ban it 1 on partial birth abortion by Mark Sherman the associated press Washington the supreme court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure wednesday handing abortion opponents the Long awaited Victory they expected from a More conservative Bench the 54 ruling said the partial birth abortion ban act that Congress passed and president Bush signed into Law in 2003 does not violate a woman constitutional right to an abortion the opponents of the act have not demonstrated that the act would be unconstitutional in a Large Frac Tion of relevant cases Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion the decision pitted the courts conservatives against its liberals with president Bush two appointees chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito siding with the majority justices Clar ence Thomas and Antonin Scalia also were in the majority it was the first time the court banned a specific procedure in a Case Over How not whether to perform an abortion abortion rights groups have said the procedure sometimes is the safest for a woman they also said that such a ruling could threaten most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy although government Law yers and others who favor the ban said there Are alter Nate More widely used procedures that remain Legal the outcome is Likely to Spur efforts at the state level to place More restrictions on abortions More than 1 million abortions Are performed in the United states each year according to recent statistics nearly 90 percent of those occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and Are not affected by wednesdays ruling today decision is alarming Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in dissent she said the ruling refuses to take seriously previous supreme court decisions on abortion Ginsburg said the latest decision tolerates in deed applauds Federal intervention to ban nation wide a procedure found necessary and proper in cer Tain cases by the american College of obstetricians and gynaecologists she was joined by justices Stephen Breyer David Souter and John Paul Stevens the procedure at Issue involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman uterus then crushing or cutting its Skull also on wednesday an attorney for a Tennessee athletic association argued recruiting rules for High school sports help protect students and do not amount to free speech infringement the decade sold Case involves a letter sent from the football coach at Brentwood Academy a wealthy private school South of Nashville to 12 eight graders inviting them to Spring training the Tennessee secondary school athletic association which governs High school sports in the state found the 1997 letter to be a violation of its recruit ing Rule the school was hit with a Fine and four years probation by the association school officials unsuccessfully appealed twice before suing California Bill would require cloned food labels Steve California state sen Carole Migden san Francisco and friends hold a news conference wednesday in Sacramento to Call for legislation that would require that milk and meat products from cloned animals intended for human consumption be clearly labelled by Aaron c Davis the associated press Sacramento Calif steaks pork chops milk and other products from cloned livestock would have to be clearly labelled on grocers shelves under a Bill pending in the California legislature if passed the requirement could be More stringent than us Federal rules the food and drug administration is poised to give final approval to meat and milk from cloned animals without any special Labelling though a Bill introduced in Congress would require it state sen Carole Migden said con Sumers deserve to know what there buying and to be Able to decide if they want to eat food from cloned animals that is especially True because the Lon term consequences of eating artificially produced animals cannot yet be studied she said  you like to know if youre drinking milk from a cloned cow or feeding your children pork chops from a somatic cell nuclear Transfer event Migden a Democrat from san fran Cisco asked during a news conference last week before the Senate health committee voted 64 along party lines to support her Bill a similar Bill has been introduced in the California As Sembly Migden was flanked by organic Dairy Farmers and other supporters wearing cow costumes and carrying placards that read not milk cloned food is coming but you can Stop it she said the Bill is not designed to undermine the food and drug administration but noted the Agency prob lems in approving and regulating pain killers there an overburdened Agency and not always 100 percent Correct she said Treyve been duped before on celeb Rex and Viox the California cattlemen association and other Industry groups oppose the legislation were sort of a Little ahead of our selves said Matt Byrne the associations executive vice president theres no meat or milk from cloned animals on the Market and theres no expectation that this will be an Issue any time soon irs says no penalty for Turbo tax users affected by server glitch the associated press san inter Nal Revenue service said wednes Day it would not penalize tur botox and pro series users whose let hour electronic returns were delayed by Intuit incs Over loaded servers a record number of returns from both individual taxpayers and accountants started causing delays Early tuesday in custom ers receiving online confirmation that their tax returns were submitted successfully said Intuit spokesman Harry Pforzheimer As the Midnight filing deadline approached the problem got worse during times of Peak de Mand Intuit was processing 50 to 60 returns per second he said irs spokesman Bruce Fried land said filers who encountered delays with Intuit s servers will not be penalized if their returns rolled in late the reprieve also extends to people who tried to file tuesday night but could not penalties for late filing Start at 5 percent of the unpaid taxes per month and Max out at a total of 25 percent they will not be penalized for filing late Friedland said