Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another U.S. college campus, Mississippi State University in Starkville has long had its own private parking regulations. The school's uniformed patrolmen, in the manner of state or city cops, ticketed violators, who then paid their fines to university authorities. Not any longer. Thanks to a student-inspired lawsuit that went all the way to a federal district court, the only way that illegal parkers can now be prosecuted is through regularly constituted courts...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Movie Director George Stevens has filed a $2,000,000 lawsuit against NBC and Paramount Pictures for this airing of A Place in the Sun, a film that won him an Oscar in 1951. Network continuity cuts and commercial interruptions, says Stevens, constitute a "rape" of the film...
Murray, who is currently singlehandedly staging a lawsuit against "the Roman Catholic Church, the Episcopate Jews, and the City of Baltimore," maintained at a Law School Forum that tax exemptions for religious property holdings are unconstitutional...
...lawsuit about publication of Ernest Hemingway memorabilia, his widow Mary noted that royalties from his works have averaged $200,000 a year since his death...
...nation has inevitably cast federal courts as the prime interpreters of an ever-expanding U.S. Constitution. Many overruled state judges resent the trend; many overworked federal judges yearn to curb it. But now that almost every lawsuit is potentially a federal case, how can state courts regain their power and influence...