Word: invalid
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Under the provisions of the exclusionary rule, "the police have to describe in precise detail what they expect to find," Tucker said. "They have to say 'When we go to this person's house, we have to find this and this.' If not, the case is thrown out as invalid...
...suggest that more vigorous kinds of opposition by officials were also legitimate. Without mentioning him by name, Meese cited with approval the example of newly appointed Federal Judge Daniel Manion, who as an Indiana legislator once introduced a bill just slightly different from a law already declared constitutionally invalid. To Meese's critics, his most troubling contention was that in general only the parties to a suit are bound by a court decision, which implied that no one else was. "What makes the law effective is voluntary compliance," says the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Barry Goldstein. "What...
...happened to him. He had kept a diary of everything. How they tormented him with talk that he had Parkinson's disease and how Dr. Obukhov brought him a book on Parkinsonism and said he had got the disease from his hunger strikes, adding, "You will become a total invalid, unable to unfasten your own trousers." Judging from what Andrei told me and the symptoms that partly remain (involuntary jaw movements), I think he suffered a stroke or a severe cerebral vascular spasm because of force- feeding or inoculations...
...press decision, though, did not affect tough new curbs announced last week by the government in its continuing tussle with reporters. The new strictures were imposed to close a loophole in the complex media regulations. The government had earlier conceded that some prohibitions were invalid because the measures had not been published as required by law. As a result, reporters were able to provide detailed accounts when the bloody confrontation that left 24 dead erupted a fortnight ago in Soweto. Last week, as the township girded for further violence, Pretoria issued the most stringent press restrictions yet, this time properly...
...meantime, following a legal challenge by the country's leading English-language newspapers, the government conceded that two of its emergency orders concerning the press had been promulgated improperly, and were therefore invalid. One order forbade the press to cover actions of the security forces, and the other banned journalists from black residential areas. The directives were thrown out by the court because the government had failed to announce them in the official gazette or by public proclamation, but had simply dispatched them by telex to the South African Press Association. The government can still put the measures into effect...