Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather than take a cut of his client's judgment, Mitchelson, who normally charges at least $100 an hour, looked elsewhere to get his fees paid. Where? The state of California. Under a rarely applied California law, a court may require the state to pay attorneys' fees "in any action which has resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest." The right in this case, of course, is to sue a live-in mate for "palimony." Local lawyers say chances are slim that the state will foot Mitchelson's bill. Even...
U.N.C.'s suit, filed by Washington Attorney Charles Morgan, is a basic challenge to all HEW desegregation efforts in Southern colleges and universities. Morgan, a former American Civil Liberties Union counsel, told a U.S. district court in North Carolina that the state has "a higher level of desegregation than most other institutions of higher education North and South." Last fall its predominantly white campuses had a greater percentage of black students than Harvard (6% vs. 5.02%) and the State University of New York (5.2%). At U.N.C.'s Chapel Hill campus, blacks in professional programs such as medicine...
...Supreme Court struck down the public-access obligation on a federal level in early April. Local authorities can still compel cable operators to make available public-access air time, and cable companies cannot legally remove the raunchier shows. Still, the Supreme Court ruling gave cable operators somewhat more authority to choose from among programs that they think will actually arouse some interest...
...York Times's Craig Whitney and the Baltimore Sun's Harold Piper were tried for "slander and defamation" for quoting a dissident's family as saying they thought his televised confession looked fake. After the reporters refused to publish retractions, they were each fined $72.50 plus court costs...
Tradition calls for the nine Justices to appear from behind the burgundy curtains of the Supreme Court at exactly 10 a.m. to announce their rulings. That is supposed to be the first public word of a decision, and few journalists have been able, or especially eager, to penetrate the court's curtain of secrecy...