Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NEGOTIATING a settlement out of court is a tried-and-true way to avoid a lengthy and expensive trial in civil cases. Through negotiations, litigants have been able to develop compromises acceptable to both parties, and avoid a definitive ruling on a complicated issue...
...push for uniform goals is relatively recent, however, while the movement for uniform financing is more than two decades old. Since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that equal access to education is not a fundamental right under the federal Constitution, at least ten states have seen their school- financing systems overturned under state-constitution provisions. In June the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down that state's financing methods, ordering the legislature not only to equalize spending but also to reorganize "the whole gamut of the common-school system...
When Robert Simpson tested positive for the AIDS virus last November, medical bills were the least of his worries. As a court reporter, Simpson, 44, was earning $48,000 a year and was covered by group health insurance. In addition, he had planned ahead by buying three disability policies. Less than a year later, however, he has fallen through the widening cracks in the U.S. medical- care system. Too weak to work, he has lost the insurance coverage from his job; moreover, he has yet to see a penny from his disability policies, although he filed six months...
...Colombia, where 157 judges were victims of drug-related murders between 1982 and 1988, it is a brave justice who stands up to the cartels. But last week, in a surprising move, the country's Supreme Court voted to uphold most of President Virgilio Barco Varga's emergency measures against narcotics traffickers. Most important, the court approved the President's power to extradite criminals...
Marcos supporters have petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to reverse its earlier decision denying re-entry to Marcos. In the meantime, Imelda plans to place her husband's body temporarily in an aboveground crypt. Plans for a wake in the auditorium of Manila's Honolulu consulate were dropped, perhaps after it was discovered that the hall was named after Ninoy Aquino...