Word: landmarks
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...then-employer, Sports Illustrated, won a landmark legal case establishing equal access for women sports reporters before the next Series...
Defining unwelcome or offensive advances sounds like a subjective judgment; many people last week were worried that sexual harassment is anything an accuser says it is. But in a landmark ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court in California ruled that the law covers any remark or behavior that a "reasonable woman" would find to be a problem -- and acknowledged that a woman's perception might differ from a man's. Judge Robert Beezer wrote that "conduct that many men consider unobjectionable may offend many women." He noted that because women are much more likely to be victims of rape...
...moment, he backed away from most every opinion he had ever expressed. Incredibly, he told Senators with a straight face that he had "no opinion" on Roe v. Wade, thus marking himself as probably the only person in the U.S. without a view on the Supreme Court's landmark abortion-rights decision. "Thomas' answers and explanations about previous speeches, articles and positions," said Alabama Senator Howell Heflin, "raised thoughts of inconsistencies, ambiguities, contradictions, lack of scholarship, lack of convictions and instability...
...Crimson recently spoke with Anthony Lewis, The New York Times Supreme Court reporter from 1957-64 and the author of Gideon's Trumpet and Make No Law, books which describe landmark Supreme Court cases. Excerpts from that conversation follow...
...What sort of criteria do you use when selecting the cases [you write about]? In Make No Law, you refer to [the Sullivan case] as "a landmark of freedom," Is that the general intent when you're seeking these out, to make Americans feel good about their judicial system...