Word: court
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brief and tranquil courtroom session, conducted while scores of partisans waited anxiously outside, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said the court's 1988-89 term will end Monday...
Before beginning their three-month summer recess, the justices must deal with three cases awaiting decision--including a Missouri dispute in which the court's 1973 decision legalizing abortion is under attack...
...each of the three cases, the court must either announce a decision or order the case reargued. If it chooses the latter course, a new round of arguments would be held during the court term that begins October, with an announcement of a decision likely...
...Frankly, I just think they want to get the decision and get out of town," Terry said. "I mean, if I was a Supreme Court justice, I would throw the decision off the airplane as I was leaving the country...
Faye Wattleton, president of Planned Parenthood, said further delay would be "an indication of the turmoil that this court is willing to create in this country...