Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mistake. Not only did we never doubt them; they represented precisely what we wanted, and not just at Harvard. ROTC became a target of nationwide protest, and students struck against university expansion from People's Park to Morningside Heights. We were willing to risk expulsion, police beatings and jail in order to obtain precisely these two concessions from Harvard University. On one level, it is clear why. ROTC and expansion were the closest embodiments at Harvard of what we believed were the crimes of the nation. Harvard was there in evident unholy union with the military; whites were removing Blacks...
Passersby were so distressed by the sight that they soon came to Santa's aid and joined an increasingly unwieldy melee. "We were quickly bailed out of jail." Spooner says...
Although there are several good reasons for opening a Swiss bank account-safety and prestige among them-one of the most important is secrecy. Any bank employee who reveals, even inadvertently, information about a client's account can be fined up to $22,000 or sent to jail for as long as six months. Switzerland's reputation for discretion is one reason it has attracted an estimated $300 billion from depositors all over the world, including Mafia dons and military dictators. This past weekend, however, residents voted on a referendum that would have taken some of the veils...
...case involved Gladys Pulliam, a Virginia magistrate who ordered two men held in jail because they could not make bail, even though they were charged with minor offenses that carried no jail terms. The two men got a federal injunction forbidding such jailing by Pulliam in the future, and a later order assessing the judge more than $7,000 for their legal fees. The four dissenters, led by Justice Lewis Powell, feared that judicial independence would now be eroded by "the ever present threat of burdensome litigation." But Justice Harry Blackmun, writing for the majority, could find no historical basis...
...motorist who saw him driving erratically. The officers, who had no warrant, were admitted to Welsh's home by his stepdaughter. They went to his bedroom and arrested him for drunk driving. In Wisconsin, a first drunk-driving conviction is a civil offense that carries no jail sentence. Welsh appealed the legality of his arrest all the way to the Supreme Court. He was vindicated when the Justices ruled, 6 to 3, that police without a warrant can almost never arrest a person in his home for a minor offense. Though he concurred in the decision, Justice Blackmun observed...