Word: enjoin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With McGraw-Hill and LIFE at least temporarily suspending their plans to publish, the New York State Supreme Court took no further action on a motion by Hughes' lawyers to enjoin publication. Before the matter became moot, however, Irving filed with the court a minutely detailed affidavit describing the numerous meetings during which Hughes supposedly recited his extraordinarily confessional autobiography. If Irving is lying, he has obviously left himself open to comprehensive perjury charges, for his account is remarkably explicit. He and Hughes first met by prearrangement, says Irving, in Oaxaca, Mexico, on Feb. 13. By Irving...
Legal maneuvers to stop the test continued. In one suit, 33 Congressmen sought to force public disclosure of the reports given to the President by environmental and other Government agencies. A Washington-based group called the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility has asked a court to enjoin the tests on the grounds that the AEC had not filed an adequate environmental-impact statement as required by law, and that the blast would damage the environment...
...been allowed to see their clients since the recent uprising, but the attorneys have not always been summoned when state authorities interrogate the prisoners. Charging a violation of the right to counsel and that many of the prisoners were being beaten or threatened, the attorneys asked the court to enjoin questioning of the convicts temporarily while lower courts consider their claims. The court refused to hear the case. Justice William O. Douglas dissented, arguing that the claims should be considered because prisoners are entitled to the protection of the Constitution and because "this is a case in which the public...
...meantime, Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union lawyer Harvey M. Burg had filed a class action suit in Federal District Court on the behalf of four students who had been denied the right to register. Charging violations of the First, Fifth, Fourteenth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments, the suit sought to enjoin the Cambridge Election Commission from "subjecting students and other young persons to burdens of identification and proof and proceedings more onerous than those to which adults and other persons have been subjected" when attempting to register to vote...
FURTIVE nocturnal phone calls from strangers offering secret documents. Eager editors excitedly following terse instructions to pick up bags containing thousands of photocopied pages. Nimble newsmen frantically rushing exclusive disclosures into print. Harassed Government attorneys chasing into court to enjoin one series of revelations, only to see another break out elsewhere. A bemused federal judge wondering if the Justice Department might not be swatting futilely at "a swarm of bees...