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...hours of debate engaging in tomfoolery. For example, Virginia's Judge Howard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee and leader of the Southern Democratic forces, offered an amendment that would ban discrimination by reason of gender as well as race. "This bill is so imperfect," said he, "what harm will this little amendment...
Weaver and his companion, Edward Hollender of Baltimore, were accused of threatening to harm a Negro woman's six-year-old child if she continued to work in a Canton store which was the object of a SNCC-organized boyott. The incident allegedly took place Feb. 4, and the pair were arrested...
Impact. The law has long recognized claims for emotional disturbances resulting from physical injury, even though there was no demonstrable link between the physical and mental harm. Newby claimed a whiplash injury, and although the connection between his aching neck and his psychosis was exceedingly faint, his case came within the old rule of negligence law, which allowed recovery for emotional injury only if there had been some physical impact...
...failed to fasten the safety belt of a nine-year-old girl; she became hysterically frightened and displayed severe emotional symptoms. Explicitly overruling its earlier approach to "mere fright," the New York Court of Appeals in 1961 upheld an award for damages although the girl had suffered no physical harm whatever...
...secrets we are going to discover in the next two years." That being the case, the only ones in the dark on most data are "our industry and our citizens." The present criterion for releasing news of an important discovery is absolute certainty that such information would not harm the national interest. Argued Teller: "I think the burden of proof should be on the other side...