Word: court
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middlesex Superior Court judge ruled last week that attorneys for a Harvard professor and his wife will have to wait until the trial next month to get detailed information about anatomically correct dolls used to elicit allegations of sexual abuse from the couple's grandchildren...
Attorney Judith L. Lindahl told Zobel that the mother of the children has a number of psychological problems, including a split personality, and asked the court to obtain the mother's mental health history so that her reliability as a witness could be questioned...
Assistant District Attorney Ellen Caulo said that the mother, who now lives out of state, would oppose any effort to order her therapy records into court. "She'll fight this," Caulo said...
...followed. Meanwhile the marriage disintegrated. Last month, when the couple began divorce proceedings, seven of the fertilized eggs remained in cold storage at Knoxville's Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. Now a custody battle is shaping up that may make the Baby M. case look simple by comparison: a court in Blount County, Tenn., must decide who gets the eggs...
...same time, Western influence is painfully limited. Too bold an intervention might tempt the eager reformers like Hungary and Poland to go too far and court Soviet repression. At bottom, though, the West simply lacks the power to order the universe that it wielded...