Word: court
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old former legal secretary who calls herself Billie Jean Jackson was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail for violating a court order to stay away from singer Michael Jackson's Encino home and stop representing herself as his wife...
WASHINGTON--A House committee yesterday approved a flag protection bill that was pushed by Democrats but dismissed by Republicans as useless for overcoming the Supreme Court ruling permitting flag burning...
...Republicans said the only way to overcome the Supreme Court ruling was with a constitutional amendment...
...state laws governing their use are often in conflict with one another or at odds with reality. In Louisiana, for example, a 1986 statute defines a frozen embryo as a juridical person -- meaning that it has legal status and can be represented by an attorney in court proceedings. But under another Louisiana law, a woman can legally abort an implanted embryo through the first trimester. In an attempt to resolve some uncertainties, an ethics committee of the Virginia-based American Association of Tissue Banks is drafting rules for the handling and disposition of frozen embryos...
...Delaware court rejects Paramount's challenge to the $14 billion combination of Time Inc. and Warner Communications, but the merger is temporarily stayed to allow an appeal...