Word: dismissiveness
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Boudin argued a motion several weeks ago calling on Judge Dixon to dismiss the charges and hold several government attorneys in contempt following the government's release of letters allegedly written by two of the defendants...
...importance of the Governance Committee's work as a gauge of administrative responsiveness. But it is hard to discount the fact that Bok met with the committee for nearly six hours before making a final decision on the dean; by doing so, he made it hard to summarily dismiss Pusey's (Bok's) first formal solicitation of student views about the selection of a University dean as mere tokenism...
...College Administrative Board required the undergraduate to withdraw, but recommended to the Faculty that he be dismissed by a Faculty vote. Since the student has a previous record of University discipline for plagiarism, the Ad Board's normal procedure would be to expel him with no option to reapply. With a Faculty vote to dismiss, however, he would be allowed to reapply in several years on the recommendation of the Ad Board...
...letter. Pasztor was angered by Caploe's reporting of the facts. He was further angered by the use of a standard reporting ploy to gain more information than he chose to give us. He claims to have issued us a "warning." We never received his "warning," and we dismiss it. We believe in our reporting, and no self-appointed censor will intimidate us into altering it. SJP has raised the issue of free speech in defense of some dubious propositions; one of them is that a newspaper is attacking their freedoms by refusing to allow them to censor the news...
...become one of the nation's most respected judges. 'Last week there was fresh evidence of his forward-reaching impact on the law. Speaking as chairman of the administrative board of the state judicial conference, Fuld announced that as of May 1, 1972, New York courts will dismiss charges against any criminal defendants, except accused murderers, who have not been tried within six months of arrest through no fault of their own. They will also be freed on bail or their own recognizance if their trials have not begun within three months. Designed to reduce a scandalous backlog...