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...also said that the decision to rescind Aprilhourlies was too sudden, and the AcademicsCommittee needed more time to address and monitorstudent concerns. Pilbeam asked the AcademicsCommittee to appear before the Faculty Council onMay 11 to make a pitch against the proposal beforeit appears on the docket of the final facultymeeting, which will be held...

Author: By Christopher G. Azzoli, | Title: Student Reps Defend April Hourlies at CUE Meeting | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

Shorthanded benches have occurred before.After the 1969 resignation of Justice Abe Fortas, a year elapsed before the Senate confirmed Richard Nixon's third nominee, Harry Blackmun. The Justices postponed some of the court's docket and even ordered rearguments on some cases they did hear. "When the vote was 4 to 4, they simply stopped," says Thomas Krattenmaker, associate dean at Georgetown law school, who was a clerk to Justice John Harlan. In 1985, after Powell had been absent nearly three months for treatment of prostate cancer, the court announced eight tie rulings, although it also ordered rearguments in four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Eight Enough? | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Well, one could go on, but the point is that the civil docket still makes room for more than whiplash, malpractice, what have you, still accommodates the citizen who has nothing grander to gain than the Republic's concession that he was right and it was wrong, which is pretty grand. In Louisiana, a Vietnamese schoolgirl, no bigger than a pencil sharpened to a nub, had no larger scheme than to publish a newspaper for the "out crowd" at her Louisiana high school, but she ran afoul of her principal nonetheless. In California, a black entrepreneur who sports a thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is Against My Rights! | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

Moreover, I found it hard to believe that there are enough readers around to keep 11 civil liberties publications afloat. But I guess there are, because Langdell stocks them. They are, in nearly alphabetical order: Civil Justice Quarterly, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties Alert, Civil Liberties Bulletin, Civil Liberties Docket, Civil Liberties Reporter, Civil Liberties Review, Civil Liberty, Civil Rights Digest, Civil Rights Update, and the ever-popular Civil Rights Newsletter of Colorado. The last periodical must exist because the people of the great state of Colorado find that the national civil liberties publications don't appeal to them...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Legalese | 5/20/1987 | See Source »

...present, however, there will not be anydramatic changes in the docket of films, accordingto Cuberley. Such first-run films as Platoon and RadioDays, which are currently being shown, areconsidered sufficiently "artsy," Cuberley said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Theater Assumes New 'Artsy' Atmosphere | 2/6/1987 | See Source »

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