Word: decisional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the McCree report urged haste in hiring tenured professors, Afro-Am found itself the center of controversy again in 1975, when department members and students charged the University with racism and discrimination in its decision not to offer tenure to Ephraim Isaacs, then associate professor of Afro-American Studies...
Insurers have taken some comfort from the latest turn in the Egan case: the California Supreme Court has ordered the punitive award to be cut. Noting that the $5 million sum amounted to nearly 60% of Mutual's 1974 net income, the court said that the award was bloated...
Much of the energy in the mental health field is now going into jockeying for Government and private reimbursement. In April the American Psychiatric Association hailed as "a terrific triumph" a federal court decision involving clinical psychologists in Virginia. It upheld the Blue Shield's policy that benefits cannot...
Yet when Congress debates the case for federal aid, legislators are likely to listen less to business skeptics than to the auto union, Chrysler suppliers and politicians from states in which the company has operations. Many have been lobbying hard for Chrysler. Whatever the economic merits or demerits of aid...
Only about half a dozen federal judges have so far refused to allow jury trials, using as an excuse a lone footnote in a 1970 Supreme Court decision suggesting that the Seventh Amendment right to a jury may be limited by "the practical abilities and limitations" of jurors. But earlier...