Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probe of the state's supreme court ends with no charges
...settle the compensation issue "promptly and generously." If that does not happen soon, some gypsies are prepared to take further steps to underscore their grievances. One tactic under consideration: inviting arrest by tearing down signs barring gypsies from campsites in the hope that it might lead to a court ruling affirming the full equality of a people still searching for a place to call home...
Students argued the right of the Supreme Court to rule on a case involving a foreign, state-owned oil company in light of a fictional congressional restriction on the Court's overseas jurisdiction...
...justices, who base their decisions on the skills of the participants instead of the merits of the case, decided in favor of the six students who argued for the Court's right to hear the case...
After the Court announced its decision, Pollak praised the participants for offering "a level of argument that gladdens the professional...