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...widespread adoption of no-fault divorce laws. When the first such legislation was implemented in California in 1970, it was hailed by many for permitting a marriage to be dissolved simply through one partner's decision to do so. It thus promised an end to the unsavory courtroom squabbles in which husbands and wives tried to prove each other guilty of infidelity or mental cruelty. Today some version of no-fault is the law in every state, although most do not permit divorce quite so easily as California...
...doubt that he will be in Yugoslavia, to whom will justice be done? He will not be able to understand the proceedings. Such "justice" comes close to the practice of the Dark Ages, when high officials or rulers, even Popes, were dug from their graves, brought into the courtroom, and condemned to be executed. (The Rev.) Hubert S. Szanto Orange, Calif. Computer's Birth...
During his 1913 trial on charges of strangling a 13-year-old girl, anti-Semitic crowds outside the steamy courtroom in Atlanta chanted, "Hang the Jew." After the Governor courageously commuted his sentence from death to life imprisonment, he was kidnaped from his jail cell and lynched. For more than 70 years, defenders of the frail, scholarly Leo Frank have fought to reverse the verdict against him as unjust and bigoted. Last week Frank was finally given a belated measure of justice when a Georgia board awarded him a posthumous pardon...
...been a winner all his life, but he works at it. A professional gambler and a three-time World Series of Poker champion, Baxter earns enough to afford a $1 million home in Las Vegas. But last week Baxter claimed his sweetest pot of all in a Reno courtroom: a $178,000 refund from the Internal Revenue Service...
...which of the following did Jackson's website, MJJsource.com compare his courtroom victory...