Word: court
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future of Eastern Airlines rests in this court," Eastern attorney David Ross said. "If the pilots are not prevented from carrying out this strike, Eastern cannot continue...
...would have seriously affected programs and budgetary priorities," explained Benna Ruth Solomon of the State and Local Legal Center in Washington. For child advocates, the opinion was deeply troubling. Said James Weill of the Children's Defense Fund: "It's part of a line of decisions in which the court has indicated significant hostility to legal protections for children." Suits against agencies may still be filed in some state courts, but local laws often permit little or no recourse. In Joshua's case, a Wisconsin statute limits damages to $50,000 -- less than the cost of a year's medical...
When the tribe's 88-member council voted to place him on indefinite leave with pay, MacDonald got himself reinstated by appealing to a Navajo tribal judge, who happens to be his brother-in-law. But last week the tribe's supreme court challenged the reinstatement. A new judge will hear MacDonald's latest appeal. Says Navajo Peterson Zah, a MacDonald rival and former tribal chief: "MacDonald has let the Navajo people down...
...board decided that happy endings are only for movies. By a 2-to-1 vote, the board refused to release Randall Adams, whose plight director Errol Morris publicized in his documentary The Thin Blue Line, which has enjoyed a cultlike popularity since its release last summer. Despite a lower-court recommendation at a hearing last December that Adams be retried, and even though the companion who accused him has all but confessed to the murder, the board concluded that the heinous nature of the crime dictated that Adams should remain in prison...
Thus some of Rushdie's detractors can now say that a symmetrical justice has been served: those who court fame end up with infamy. The man who notoriously abandoned the longtime editor who backed him for more than a decade in order to get a contract of roughly $1 million has now got a $1 million contract on his head. And in the same breath as he became a household name, Rushdie has become a missing person. Almost worst of all, for a writer, his work of the imagination -- and an exceptionally complex work of an uncommonly fertile imagination...