Word: docket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Supreme Court returns to a docket that is both hot and heavy...
...docket now facing the Justices is not only the heaviest ever but one of the hottest in recent years. Among the more emotional issues is abortion and whether states or localities may restrict it by requiring, for example, parental consent for minors. The Justices will also rule on the constitutionality of a Minnesota statute that allows parents a tax deduction for their children's private-school tuition. Then there is the so-called Betamax case: Are U.S. copyright laws violated when video-tape-machine owners record TV shows at home? A critical case tests the legality of the legislative...
Clayton had to wait two years for his case to come to court because of the crowded federal court docket...
...PRELIMINARIES of the final and greatest case on the Harvard 1922 football docket were concluded yesterday with a parade that even surpassed the "record-breaker" mass meeting. Never have more Harvard men marched to Soldiers Field to cheer a football team in its last practice. The briefs, "We are going to win" and "We'll beat Yale" reflect unmistakably the attitude in Cambridge. And every Harvard man who is going to witness the trial tomorrow will support the team with the same conviction...
...Supporters of the measure-which would ease restrictions on the interstate sales of guns-considered introducing it two weeks ago, but held off when Reagan was shot. No one seriously doubts that once the public outcry over the assassination attempt dies down, the bill will show up on the docket. Obedient to the tide of Mailgrams, hundreds of Congressmen will do their best to see that it becomes law. -By Walter Isaacson...