Word: burger
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Chief Justice Warren Burger has often complained about the overburdening of the nation's courts. They are being choked, he once observed, because "people tend to be less satisfied with one round of litigation and are demanding a second bite at the apple." The apple is now biting back. In two major decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to permit federal employees to bring damage suits against their superiors for violations of constitutional rights. In a third case, the court assessed a party for filing a frivolous appeal after repeated failures in lower courts...
...prominent Washington lawyer and Transportation Secretary under President Ford, who was appointed by the court to argue the position abandoned by the Justice Department. Not only was the IRS ban "wholly consistent with what Congress, the Executive and the courts had repeatedly declared," wrote Chief Justice Warren E. Burger in the unusually forceful opinion, but Congress had implicitly approved the policy by refusing 13 times since 1970 to overturn...
Lawson is not surprised. "The Supreme Court has avoided the gut issues, which are the violations of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments," he says. Chief Justice Warren Burger "is always whining about how the court is overloaded, and at the same time his court has repeatedly avoided dealing with the main issues...
Galardi's basic burger is thin-he gets ten patties per pound of meat-and comes wrapped in plain paper. The price goes up to as much as 95? for a double cheeseburger. Says Customer Tim Hebert, 17, a high school student: "It's incredibly average, but it's cheap...
Galardi will try out his no-frills idea at 34 of his shops in eleven other Western states. Already his hamburger stands are stirring up competition. At one of its outlets near Galardi's, Burger King last week was promoting, on a hand-lettered sign, HAMBURGER...