Word: laws
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Morse's successor is Joel W. Bunkley Jr., 52, a law faculty member for 23 years, who says, "I am proudest of all of one thing: that I am a Mississippian." Bunkley was appointed by Chancellor Fortune, who had repeatedly assured the 18 faculty members that he would not appoint a dean unacceptable to them. When the faculty was formally polled on eight candidates before the choice was made, the vote was more than 2 to 1 against Bunkley...
...image for a social worker, is it?" For Caroline is now a golden girl of another sort. As one of the organizers of a legal-aid agency called "Release," she has become a protector of youthful British drug addicts and pot users who are in trouble with the law...
...National Council for Civil Liberties and a few local church and welfare groups. In recent years, the British have not always lived up to their well-deserved reputation for fair play toward the accused criminal. They have not, for example, developed anything like the body of Supreme Court case law that-at least in theory-restricts police in the U.S. Coon and Harris, in a paperback entitled The Release Report on Drug Offenders and the Law, claim that British bobbies at times break into homes without warrants and on the flimsiest evidence, often entering at night to heighten "the shock...
Minutes after his exchange with the stewardess, three Massachusetts state police appeared in the aisle. They hand cuffed Dudley, a descendant of the founder of Cambridge, a Harvard Law School alumnus and currently a United Church of Christ official. He was hustled off the plane, taken to a police station and booked for disturbing the peace. Police took his belt, glasses, comb and watch, then jailed him for two hours. "I thought they were joking," said Dudley, but he knew that they were not when one cop told him: "You be careful of what...
More than most religious believers, the Witnesses are in almost constant trouble with the law, in the U.S. as elsewhere. They refuse military service, not on the ground of conscientious objection but on the dubious claim that every baptized member of the sect is a minister; as a result, a survey showed, 300 young American Witnesses were in jail last year for draft evasion. Currently, they are having difficulties with several African nations. In Zambia, for example, 3,700 Witness children were expelled from public schools for refusing to salute the flag, which they refuse to do anywhere because...