Word: enjoiners
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...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...
...Daily's attorneys filed a brief in the Federal District Court of North Califronia charging that the raid-unprecedented in recent history-violated the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution, and asking the court to declare the search illegal and to enjoin the Palo Alto Police Department from staging another raid...
...district court against the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest purchaser of strip-mined coal and producer of electricity. The Sierra Club, National Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund seek to void $101 million worth of TVA's contracts for strip-mined coal and to enjoin further purchases. The litigants argue that TVA failed to comply with the Environmental Protection Act's requirement that federal agencies file "impact statements"-in this case, detailing the environmental effects of strip mining. TVA has not yet answered the charges...
...motion calls on the courts to enjoin the government from releasing any further evidence before the trial. It also requests that S. John Cottone, U.S. Attorney in Harrisburg, and William SLynch, the Justice Department attorney now directing the grand jury investigation in Harrisburg, be found in contempt of court for "purposeful and deliberate violation of the defendants' [Constitutional] rights...