Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though we have met each of her characters before, Sister Souljah's No Disrespect offers a lens to the rhythms and realities of young Black urban life, making her characters believable and impossible to dismiss, even when they aren't pretty to look...
...story yesterday on former Harvard instructor William D. Cole is in need of further clarification. The story may have implied that a hearing on a motion to dismiss Cole was supposed to have been held on March 1. In fact, the hearing was originally scheduled for February...
Cole's lawyer, Boston attorney Jonathan Shapiro, has filed a motion to dismiss the charges. That motion was supposed to have been heard this Wednesday. But Shapiro said in an interview last Thursday that the hearing was postponed because he is busy trying a federal case...
Lynch said it is standard for judges to set trial dates when motions to dismiss are pending...
...seen as antisocial -- even when the laws don't directly address such conduct. In the LaMacchia case, civil libertarians were disturbed at what they saw as strong-arm tactics: an attempt to mold criminal law according to what the Justice Department wanted. Judge Stearns, in his decision to dismiss the case, suggested that it was up to Congress to amend the copyright laws if it wanted to encourage this sort of prosecution...