In the United States, following a series of landmark cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, persons diagnosed with paraphilias and a history of anti-social behavior, particularly pedophilia ( Kansas v. Hendricks, 1997 ) and exhibitionism ( Kansas v. Crane, 2002 ), can be held indefinitely in civil confinement under various state legislation generically known as Sexually violent predator laws and the federal Adam Walsh Act ( United States v. Comstock, 2010 ).

The 1997 Constitution was considered a landmark in terms of the degree of public participation involved in its drafting as well as the democratic nature of its articles.

In a landmark ruling on 30 September 2008 the High Court in London decided that the Home Secretary's policy allowing Gurkhas who left the Army before 1997 to apply for settlement in the United Kingdom was irrationally restrictive in its criteria, and quashed it.

Pilotwings 64 was ranked number 38 in Nintendo Powers " 100 Best Nintendo Games of All Time " in its landmark 100th issue in September 1997.

Its major landmark is the 6th century Euphrasian Basilica, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.

In 1997, the Legislature passed another landmark law designating the entire month of October as " Children and Youth Month ".

With the appointment of Professor Peter Swannell as Vice-Chancellor in 1996 the University underwent a further period of exceptional growth which included the establishment of a Wide Bay Campus, later renamed USQ Fraser Coast, and a Brisbane Centre in 1997, the USQ European Study Centre in Bretten, Germany in 1998 and the building of a number of landmark structures on campus.

The 1997 – 98 season, was a landmark year.

As compiled in 1997, the recipient of the largest amount of funding ($ 2. 3 million USD ) was Thomas J. Bouchard's landmark twin study, the Minnesota Study of Identical Twins Reared Apart ( MISTRA ), better known as the Minnesota Twins Project.

She was one of the prime-movers of the movement that lead to the 1997 landmark agreement between the local government council and the aboriginal people of the area claiming rights over the island and parts of Moreton Bay.

It remains a Chicago landmark, and was voted “ Favorite Building ” by the readers of the Chicago Tribune in both 1995 and 1997.

In 1997, in a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court of India took a strong stand against sexual harassment of women in

Same-sex sexual activity has been legal in Ecuador since a 1997 landmark decision by the Constitutional Tribunal overturned as unconstitutional section one of Article 516 of the Penal Code, which previously criminalized sexual activities between persons of the same sex.

The building was designated a New York City landmark on January 14, 1997.

Largely the result of these high-rise experiments and his landmark book, The Skyscraper, Bioclimatically Considered ( John Wiley & Sons, 1997 ) Yeang is credited as the inventor of the ' bioclimatic skyscraper ' as a genre of the tall building type.

In 1997 the landmark bridge was declared a historical and artistic monument.

Ducheny served in numerous committees and authored landmark legislation, including the CAL Works Welfare Reform Act of 1997, which assisted many in the transition from welfare to work ; the College Affordability Act, which rolled back student fees at the University of California, California State University, and Community Colleges for the first time in 13 years ; the Reverse Mortgage bill, which provided protection to senior homeowners and consumers ; the California Public School Library Act, which provided an additional funding source for school libraries ; the Indian Child Welfare Act ; the California development certificate to teach K-12 students ; and legislation regarding vacant residential structures, which enabled local government to rehabilitate vacant dwellings to improve the quality of life in their communities.

In 1997, the Jersey City Historic Preservation Committee declared the diner a local landmark.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Charges were dismissed in the 1997 case, and were not filed in the 1998 case.

In one case, the Provincial Judges Reference ( 1997 ), it was found a law can be held invalid for contradicting unwritten principles, in this case judicial independence.

In a famous Canadian Charter of Rights case, " Sandra Bell vs. City of Toronto ", 1997, the right to cultivate all native species, even most varieties deemed noxious or allergenic, was upheld as part of the right of free expression.

However, in the case of Hong Kong, irredentism was incidental: The New Territories part of the British colony were only on a lease expiring in 1997 anyway and, with their surrender, it was thought the Crown territory of Hong Kong itself would be nonviable as an entity independent of mainland China.

If this is not the case, individual assessment is more appropriate than team assessment ( Wageman & Baker, 1997 ).

Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.

Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.

In this case, KD = 1997.

* Breard v. Greene, 523 U. S. 317 ( 1997 ) The earlier case of the execution of a Paraguayan on which the LaGrand decisions rest.

In a controversial 1997 book, attorney Michael Trotter blamed over-reliance by American lawyers on binding and persuasive authority, rather than the merits of the case at hand, as a major factor behind the escalation of legal costs during the 20th century.

In a 1997 U. S. case, the Ninth Circuit addressed conversion therapy in the context of an asylum application.

An example of this would be that if a person is electrocuted by a wiring defect incorporated into a structure in, say, 1990, a state law may allow his heirs to sue only before 1997 in the case of an open ( patent ) defect, or before 2000 in the case of a hidden defect.

These smaller species are known for an alleged tendency to invade and parasitise the human urethra ; however, despite ethnological reports dating back to the late 19th century, the first documented case of the removal of a candiru from a human urethra did not occur until 1997, and even that incident has remained a matter of controversy.

To date, there is only one documented case of a candiru entering a human urinary system, which took place in Itacoatiara, Brazil in 1997.

* Dr. Domino Falls translated and edited the case histories in Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories ( 1997 ) ISBN 978-0-9820464-7-0.

The classic case of a corrupt, exploitive dictator often given is the regime of Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( which he renamed Zaire ) from 1965 to 1997.

In the 1997 case of City of Boerne v. Flores, the Court again took a narrow view of the Congressional power of enforcement, striking down a provision of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ( RFRA ) that sought to forbid the states from placing burdens on religious practice in the absence of a compelling state interest in doing so.

( Barnes, 1997: 35 ) In either case, the train station that had served as the main source of livelihood for the town was completely destroyed, along with such forgotten landmarks as the Nunica Conservatory for Music and other Fine Arts and the Nunica casino.

Edenton achieved international notoriety for the Little Rascals child-abuse case, the subject of journalist Ofra Bikel's award-winning trilogy of documentaries: Innocence Lost ( 1991 ), Innocence Lost: The Verdict ( 1993 ), and Innocence Lost: The Plea ( 1997 ).

On June 26, 1997, the Supreme Court upheld the Philadelphia court's decision in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, stating that the indecency provisions were an unconstitutional abridgement of the First Amendment right to free speech because they did not permit parents to decide for themselves what material was acceptable for their children, extended to non-commercial speech, and did not define " patently offensive ," a term with no prior legal meaning.

Parts of the earlier and much broader Communications Decency Act had been struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1997 ( Reno v. ACLU ); COPA was a direct response to that decision, narrowing the range of material covered.

She played for seven different teams between 1992 and 1997, including Atlanta, the Knoxville Cherokees, Nashville Knights, the Las Vegas Aces, the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks, Las Vegas Thunder, and the Reno Renegades, appearing in a total of 24 games.

* 1996 – 1997 Reno Renegades ( WCHL )

* Reno Renegades ( 1995 – 1997 )

* Reno Rage ( 1997 – 1998 )

In 1997, Paradis played in Un amour de sorcière with Jeanne Moreau and Jean Reno, before filming Une chance sur deux, with Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Since 1997, the jail has been used in movies and television shows such as Reno 911!

* Fort Reno Benefit ( 1997 )

* Reno v. ACLU ( 1997 ) – Upheld legality of distribution of pornography on the Internet

She has also worked for KMIR-TV in Palm Springs, California from 1997 to 1999, and KRNV-TV in Reno, Nevada.

Immediately challenged by a group of organizations spearheaded by the ACLU, both of these provisions were struck down by the U. S. Supreme Court in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union ( 1997 ).