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Hearts set on recessing by the end of June, minds wrestling with a huge term-end backlog, the nine Justices of the Supreme Court face a forbidding task. Before this week is out, they hope to decide 32 cases-nearly a fifth of the year's docket-including the constitutionality of capital punishment and press gags. Last week the court ruled on no fewer than 24 cases. Four had particular national significance...
...state police bodyguards is Penelope Cravens, 27, a former stewardess. Helped mightily by a $768 million black-ink bequest from Predecessor Ronald Reagan, Brown honored his pledge to hold the line on taxes for individuals while keeping state spending growth to sub-Reagan rates. He signed into law a backlog of Reagan-blocked measures: new business taxes, a liberalized marijuana law, a so-called Gay Bill of Rights...
...gloomy stillness enveloped Ford Motor Co.'s normally bustling assembly plant in Metuchen, NJ. The plant was closed all last week to reduce a mounting backlog of unsold Pintos and Mercury Bobcats, two of the smallest models Ford produces. At the same time, a bulging inventory of Chevrolet's sub-compact Vegas prompted General Motors Corp. to eliminate a second shift at its huge superautomated plant in Lordstown, Ohio...
Because of a state statute that requires a case to be heard in a specific locality, the Middlesex County Courthouse is not being used fully and the Suffolk County Courthouse has a large backlog of civil cases, Brownloe Speer, director of the select committee, said yesterday...
...discrimination. An affirmative action plan is for the most part a data-keeping requirement that can indicate the existence of discrimination. With this kind of ammunition, one law student says, people are encouraged to file employment discrimination cases when they feel they have been treated unfairly. But the backlog of such agencies as the MCAD, with more than 2,000 cases behind and without a dime left to conduct costly public hearings and the EEOC, with a national backlog of 21,000 cases, does not suggest they will get very quick satisfaction...