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...twist to this story is that, in a town ruled by lucre, this one wasn't about the money. Davis, for example, was earning $1,350 a week when she attested of her "slavery" in that 1936 British court. (The Warner counsel drawled, "If anybody wants to put me into perpetual servitude on the basis of that remuneration, I shall be prepared to consider it.") No, it was about the power that a paternalist organization wanted to keep holding over the actors it saw as its pampered children. I protect you, sustain you, give you this generous allowance...
...which may have contributed to the speedy course of injustice in Linyi. With his own legal counsel in jail, Chen was represented by two court-appointed lawyers. The trial lasted just two hours. Thursday's announcement of a four-year-and-three-month sentence surprised even those who expected little more than a sham trial; lawyers here agree that similar charges rarely elicit a jail sentence of more than a year. "Chen's case typifies how some local officials can take the law as a personal tool for revenge," says Teng Biao, a university lecturer who has been part...
...real issue, critics say, is an old rural coal mining town, which had been 90% or more white, unable to come to grips with its new demographics."It becomes discriminatory in effect, if not in intent," said David Vaida, an attorney from nearby Allentown who is a local counsel on the lawsuit. "I'm not willing to tar anybody who is in favor of this as a racist, but what I do know is that the effect is going to be racist...
...amounting to much: China may be brimming with opportunity, but not for handicapped, uneducated peasants. The odds didn't deter Chen. He educated himself in the law by having relatives read to him, and then used his expertise to help others like him. He became a "barefoot lawyer," offering counsel to peasants with disabilities despite his lack of conventional credentials. His work won him admiration in his hometown, support from established lawyers and academics in Beijing, and even a trip to Washington, D.C., courtesy of the U.S. State Department...
...School Committee’s legal counsel, Demitrios M. Moschos, said that the superintendent’s current contract will not be renewed but that the committee has decided to negotiate a new contract. According to several unnamed school system officials quoted in The Boston Globe yesterday, the committee is trying to negotiate a new contract with Fowler-Finn that would expire in August 2008, a one-year extension on his tenure...