Word: invalidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Ginzburg hoped that the Supreme Court would let him off. In a series of cases the court had held censorship invalid under the First Amendment's guarantee of free expression. The key idea: material is not obscene unless by contemporary standards it "appealed to prurient interest" and was "utterly without redeeming social value." His publications had such value, said Ginzburg...
...leave either. The arrangement frees a bed in the hospital's acute section and gets the patient accustomed once more to caring for himself. In a VA hospital, with its relatively aged clientele, the program also reduces the number of patients who grow so used to the invalid's routine that they prefer it. Fourteen VA hospitals now use the system; private hospitals are beginning to follow suit, and not only for the elderly. Besides those nearly ready to go home, other types of patients are considered eligible, including those admitted for presurgical testing, businessmen undergoing executive physicals...
...Gera, a Queens housewife, to employment as a professional baseball umpire. Two years ago Mrs. Gera won a contract to serve as an umpire in the Class A New York-Pennsylvania League. But before she could harness up to call her first game, her contract was declared "disapproved and invalid" by Phillip Piton, president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues...
Breny said that, although the courts may declare invalid the order which her organization is fighting, the petition campaign is very important...
...suit alleges that all induction orders are invalid because of a provision in the new Selective Service Act requiring a 90 day moratorium on inductions following Presidential signing. President Nixon signed the law September 28. The suit contends, therefore, that inductions can't legally begin until December...