Word: districting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February decision was the result of several appeals and counter-appeals which reached all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. However, in light of the Bakke decision, the Supreme Court sent the case back to the appeals court for reconsideration, and the appeals court instructed the district court to reverse its prior decision and rule in favor of the plaintiffs...
Price gouging can be punished by a fine of $10,000. A retailer in Boston who charged $1.57 for unleaded was hit with a civil suit by federal officials; a U.S. District Court ordered him to roll the price back 70?. Despite such actions, however, black marketeers vastly outnumber DOE inspectors. "If we ever have the personnel and the time to investigate, we could uncover some incredible stuff," says a DOE official. But the department, which is scheduled to have 800 inspectors by mid-1980, needs thousands to enforce the scheduled prices. It has little prospect of getting them...
...year ago, Berkey Photo (1978 revenues: $199 million) won a major victory over giant Eastman Kodak ($7 billion) in one of the largest private antitrust suits in history. A federal district-court jury in Manhattan found that Kodak, which made more than 80% of the film sold in the U.S. in 1973, when the case was first brought, and garnered over 60% of camera sales, not only had monopoly power in the amateur-photography field but had used this power unfairly. Berkey was awarded treble damages of $87 million. Now, in an equally stunning reversal, the U.S. Second Circuit Court...
Kodak officials were naturally delighted with the decision, though their court troubles may not be over. Berkey may try to appeal Kaufman's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, or it can return to the district court with the part, of its suit that Kaufman said must be retried (this involved alleged abuses by Kodak of its dominant position in the photographic-paper market...
...have a car, you can find some MDC (Metropolitan District Commission) beaches within Boston's city limits. Some of these beaches are sand pits, and some of them are decent. None of them are nirvana...