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...world was about to change for women that Monday morning, but only the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices and a few court personnel knew it. The second case on the docket that day was Roe v. Wade, which challenged the Texas laws making virtually all abortions illegal. Justice Harry Blackmun read the decision he had written declaring the laws unconstitutional, which had passed by a vote...
...assess widespread student opinion on Kirby’s preregistration plan, which would so deeply affect undergraduate education. Defying the wishes of members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, it did not even give the committee the opportunity to vote on the plan before it was placed on the docket for a Faculty vote. Kirby should have conducted a survey of all undergraduates to gauge student opinion before he presented his plan; now the burden is on students to come to Kirby and the Faculty with their dissatisfaction...
...There are ongoing discussions,” University spokesperson Joe Wrinn said yesterday. According to the case docket, the parties are scheduled to appear before the judge on Nov. 8 to discuss “stipulations on the conditions for dismissal” of the case...
...which had poor production values and featured Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall. Then we watched television for another hour, my fellow jurors cackling disturbingly at Regis and Kelly’s repartee, before the judge came in and told us that since both cases on the docket had been settled, we might go home. I hadn’t made a single impassioned speech to my fellow jurors. I hadn’t even been impaneled...
...crowded police-court docket, said Mark Twain, is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty. The current season would seem to bear him out, with a slight twist. There is brisk betting and plentiful money riding on a schedule that is up to its antenna in crooks and crime, cops and private eyes, crusading attorneys and special investigators. In all, there are 29 crime shows on the network schedules, accounting for roughly 21 of the 63 prime-time hours each week... Attempts to vary that formula have stretched as far as TV writers' imaginations can fetch...