Word: courtly
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Last month the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court threw out Cohn's suit, saying that it should have been brought in Michigan, where the company is headquartered. Cohn, who vows to pursue the suit, is pondering whether to appeal the decision. Mean while, he has been trying to keep the case alive in the press...
With those words, U.S. District Court Judge Robert W. Warren of Milwaukee starkly defined the conflict: freedom of the press vs. national security. Last week Warren came down firmly on the side of the Government. He issued a preliminary injunction barring publication of a 3,350-word article in the magazine describing how a hydrogen bomb works. The injunction replaced a temporary restraining order he imposed March...
Such spot checks by police are common practice. Last week, by a vote of 8 to 1. the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they are unconstitutional. No longer will police be able to stop a car at random to look at a driver's credentials unless the officer has some objective reason to suspect that the law has been broken. The case before the court involved a Delaware driver named William Prouse, 20, who was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana after his car was stopped during a "routine" license check in 1976. Police Officer Anthony Avena...
...court disagreed. Writing for the majority. Justice Byron White called the safety factor "marginal at best," and said it was not enough to outweigh the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. There is, said White, "a 'grave danger' of abuse of discretion." The decision means that police will no longer be able to use such dubious reasons as the length of a driver's hair or the color of his skin to stop a car. In the court's view, wrote White, random checks by policemen are "an unsettling show of authority...
...said that, in his colleagues' eyes, motorists, "like sheep, are much less likely to be 'frightened' or 'annoyed' when stopped en masse." Therefore, police can now stop "all motorists," but not "less than all motorists." Rehnquist may have had a point about the court's logic, but then there is nothing logical about the genuine anxiety many innocent motorists feel when they see a police car pull up alongside...