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Word: docket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Supreme Court building and grabbed for copies, prompting a court employee to snap: "Behave!" But upstairs in the ornate red-draped courtroom, the tourists who occupied most of the seats had little idea what was going on. The black-robed Justices referred to the cases by their uninformative docket names (the quotas case, for example, was identified as Fullilove vs. Klutznick), and Chief Justice Warren Burger announced two of the decisions by droning, "We affirm . . . We reverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Four Big Decisions | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...District People's Court in northern Moscow. The judge, a petite brunet in a striped blouse and skirt, enters the room. Two citizen-jurists called "people's assessors," an elderly man and a young woman, follow her to the high-backed chairs behind the bench. On the docket: Borisova vs. Borisov, a divorce case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: With Justice for (Almost) All | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...other business the Council placed on the Faculty docket a proposal to include in the "Handbook for Students" a statement that students who misuse fire extinguishers face disciplinary action...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: King Birthday | 4/17/1980 | See Source »

...that Judge Elam "ducked" a difficult trial. The news article (April 4, 1980) says. "The delays subsequently resulted in a postponement, which moved the case from the docket of Judge Harry P. Elam, a Black judge, to the afternoon session under Judge Charles Grabau, a white judge." I also do not feel that because Judge Grabau grew up in Cuba, he is Hispanic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Response | 4/16/1980 | See Source »

...docket for April 3, 1980 listed nearly eleven cases. The eleventh case was that of Emeka Ezera '81, charged with "larceny from the person," arresting officer Pond of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), and Heins as prosecuting attorney...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: In the Name of the Law | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

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