Word: landmarks
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...expand civil rights, accusing them of a paternalistic belief in black inferiority. His harshest critics, like Wade Henderson, Washington director of the N.A.A.C.P., even speculate that "if Thomas had been on the court at the time, he would have opposed the decision in Brown v. Board of Education," the landmark 1954 decision that struck down segregated schools...
Like 80% to 90% of all felony defendants in the U.S., Haney was too poor to hire her own lawyer and was represented by court-appointed attorneys. In the Supreme Court's landmark 1963 decision, Gideon v. Wainwright, the Justices cited the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to counsel and declared that indigent defendants accused of felonies must be provided with attorneys because, wrote Justice Hugo Black, the "noble ideal" of a fair trial is impossible if the poor man must "face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him." In 1972 the High Court extended this rule...
...many women are claiming damages from a landmark, $4.25 billion settlement over breast implants that each may receive just 5 percent of what she was promised. "There are just too many sick women," Ralph Knowles, the plaintiffs' attorney in the class-action suit, announced today. "I didn't think it was going to be anything like that. If I did, we would never have agreed to the $4.25 billion." Discussions are underway to convince Dow Corning, Bristol-Myers Squibb and other implant makers to add billions more to what is already the largest product-liability settlement in U.S. history...
...other Trump news: Harry and Leona Helmsley are suing the Donald for $100 million. The Helmsleys, who lease the Empire State Building from Trump and his Japanese partners, say a lawsuit that Trump filed in February claiming the Helmsleys had mismanaged the landmark (key phrase: "rodent infestation") was an attempt to drive down rental rates and scare off tenants...
...built in 1931 by Union Electric createdthe area's main landmark, the Lake of the Ozarks.A little further upstream, the U.S. Army Corpserected the Truman Dam a decade ago. Before thedams, steamships came up the Osage River from theMissouri River, and some early settlers thoughtWarsaw might one day grow to rival Kansas City inpopulation and commerce...