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Those protections do not extend to other crimes. Indeed, Litman first made a name for himself in 1977 by getting a conviction on the lesser charge of manslaughter for Richard Herrin, a Yale graduate who killed his girlfriend Bonnie Garland with a hammer. "It was suggested," says her father Paul bitterly, "that she was a manipulative, rich, spoiled person who didn't treat this lovely man who murdered her nicely." Garland, a New York attorney, is working for the spread of legislation that gives victims the right to a voice at bail hearings and with the prosecution before a plea...
...places the production stumbles. MacMillan's Garland Dance seems garbled and congested. The threadbare set for the forest scene looks as if the company ran through the budget before they got to it. And the tableau in which Aurora awakens to her Prince's kiss lacks rapture, but perhaps such transports take time to perfect...
...blind, which any self-respecting femme-fatale would give her feather boa to be seen through, holding a smoking revolver in her arm-length velvet glove. Aided by Greg Sullivan's lighting, director Deal stages images that always seem eerily appropriate, as if we all carried around the Judy Garland version of A Star is Born like a race-memory...
Angered by this string of events, Garland filed a complaint against Cal Fed, citing a 1978 California law that requires employers with 15 or more workers to offer up to four months' unpaid leave for pregnant women with the promise of the same or a comparable job upon their return. Cal Fed responded with its own suit in federal court against the California law, arguing that it conflicted with the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, a measure passed by Congress in 1978 that outlaws discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. The California statute, claimed Cal Fed, discriminates against men by requiring special...
...Lillian Garland, the loss of her $850-a-month job was the beginning of a wrenching struggle. Cal Fed eventually reinstated her, but she resigned last spring and now works as a real estate agent. "It's been five years of hell," Garland says of the long legal struggle. "But even if it had taken 20 years, I'd do it again. I felt like I was fighting for all women in the work force. Women should not have to choose between being a mother and having...