Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will hurt us] less than if we didn't have any oil, and that is why we have to follow the price trends. Oil is our first historical chance, and may be the only chance we have, of solving our problems as a free country and a fair...
...corporate tax rate. If Chrysler makes money again, it would not be able to offset those earnings with this year's loss, and the Treasury would start to get its money back from Chrysler's higher taxes. A dispensation from the loss carry-forward provisions stands a fair chance in Congress...
...from using confessions and a murder weapon, which they claimed had been illegally obtained by police. At the hearing, the defense lawyers asked Judge Daniel DePasquale to bar the public and the press from court. The lawyers argued that adverse publicity would jeopardize their clients' chance for a fair trial. The prosecutor made no objection, and the judge cleared the courtroom. But a reporter from Gannett's Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and Times-Union later challenged the judge's ruling: the reporter relied on the Sixth Amendment, which provides that "in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy...
Writing for the high court's majority, Justice Potter Stewart acknowledged that there is a "strong societal interest" in open trials. But he left for another day the question whether judges must weigh that interest against the defendant's right to a fair trial. The Sixth Amendment's public-trial guarantee belongs only to the criminally accused, wrote Stewart, not to the public itself. He specifically refused to concede that the press or the public possesses a constitutional right, under the First Amendment, to attend criminal trials. Even if such a right of "access" did exist, Stewart...
...process of gathering news enjoys considerably less First Amendment protection from the Burger Court than does printing news once it is gathered. The court is highly protective of competing individual rights, such as a person's right to a fair trial or his right to protect his reputation and privacy...