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...city fathers had troubles of their own in late July, when local developers hauled them into court in an effort to enjoin enforcement of the city's tough restrictions on condominiums. They failed when a federal judge let the law stand for the time being, but the real estate interests vowed to redouble their efforts to elect a conservative majority to the city council in upcoming elections...
...never chosen to show the film. But once they had decided to ignore the outcry, they were correct in not bowing to a challenge from the state that can only be described as dangerous to First Amendment rights. Friday afternoon, after a judge properly denied a motion to enjoin the showing, officials of the district's attorney's office threatened to arrest Carl Stork and Nathan Hagen anyway if they went ahead and screened the movie. Stork and Hagen were right to decide to go ahead and show the movie. Not to do so would have been...
...19th century English Luddites smashed machines in a doomed effort to preserve the jobs of textile workers. California Rural Legal Assistance, a federally subsidized antipoverty group, does not go quite that far. But last week it filed suit in a state court in Oakland seeking to enjoin the University of California from using state money to develop farm machines. The C.R.L.A. charges that the introduction of more modern mechanical tomato, grape and lettuce pickers will primarily benefit large growers and will cost 120,000 California farm laborers their jobs...
...their children up for adoption is illegal in most states, but Keane thinks surrogate motherhood-using the husband's sperm-is a special case. This month he and an associate, Attorney Robert Harrison, took the issue to court; they asked a Wayne County circuit court judge to enjoin the state attorney general from interfering in the payment of fees to surrogate mothers. Says Harrison: "The question is, does the state have sufficient interest in this entire scheme which overrides the right of privacy and the right to bear and beget children. We don't think...
...there are limits. Mobil Oil Corp. has charged that pesky Superior Oil has gone too far. In suits filed in Houston and in Calgary, Alberta, Mobil accuses Superior of luring away no fewer than 32 exploration and production experts to acquire top technical secrets. Mobil wants the courts to enjoin the defectors from spilling the beans and to force Superior to pay damages for any information already obtained...