Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bring unexpected problems, however. In Pennsylvania, for example, Frances Wasiolek, the divorced mother of three young children, asked a court to award her increased child support. The judge ruled that under the state ERA, she had the responsibility not only to support herself but to contribute to her children's support. "My blood was boiling," says her lawyer, Michael Pepe Jr., who appealed the case. The Pennsylvania superior court agreed with him that housekeeping has economic value: Wasiolek, who looks forward to the day she can return to her nursing career, was already providing her share of support...
...three women whose successful suit against Massachusetts Electric established that under the state ERA, pregnancy is just another biological contingency that must be included in routine disability plans. So far, Mrs. Lehtonen's cash award for several pregnancy-related illnesses has been only $97. The court decision in her case, however, grants rights that the U.S. Supreme Court, without an ERA, had refused in a similar case...
...means evolution, not revolution," says one feminist. If the slow, costly and erratic accumulation of court decisions seems barely past the protoplasmic stage of evolution, feminists in ERA states insist that it is only part of a much larger change in attitudes. Shoshana Cardin, head of the Maryland Commission for Women, points to the 28 women serving in the state legislature (eleven of whom are new this term) as evidence of Maryland women's "greater sense of opportunity and equality...
...more than two hours after Bazargan's address, another kangaroo court was in session, and the prisoner was an international figure. The Komiteh, a group of activists around Khomeini who wield more effective power in Iran than the government, brought former Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida from his cell in Qasr prison for a trial before an Islamic revolutionary court. Hoveida, who served as Prime Minister for almost 13 years under the Shah, was by far the most important official of the old regime to stand trial for his life. Ironically, he was jailed by the Shah late last...
Kathering E. Lo '80, an "extern" who worked with a juvenile court judge last year, said yesterday she observed the life of a court judge as well as "saw what it was like to take care of kids and cook for a husband and family...