Word: appealing
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...dramatic dissent from the Supreme Court's refusal to hear an appeal for a stay of execution, Harry Blackmun, the court's most senior Justice, authored a highly personal repudiation of the death penalty, which he had long upheld. "From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death," wrote Blackmun...
Abramian was briefly homeless, and Voss has not been able to find work since he was effectively fired last July. Voss had to wait longer for the firing to be made official, and the University delayed the guard's appeal of the decision for five months in an apparent violation of the the guard union contract...
Burton A. Nadler, an attorney for the rent control advocates, said the judge's ruling on the 334 signatures could be grounds for appeal. But the lawyer also said his opponents might be entitled to an appeal on Sossman's decision to uphold the limits of signatures per county...
Bill Cavellini, a Cambridge taxi-driver who is a member of the Campaign for Affordable Housing and Tenant Protections and a plaintiff in the pro-rent control suit, said that an appeal in the highly contentious case is likely...
...Cavellini noted that any appeal will have to be conducted quickly. The November ballot is scheduled to be certified at the state constitutional convention in June...