Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could become more efficient if the newly discovered marijuana fields were to be sprayed with paraquat. The state of Florida, in apparent agreement, has announced that it will spray some fields with the herb killer. The Florida plan has prompted critical editorials in local newspapers as well as a lawsuit from NORML. In addition, the Chevron Chemical Co., a distributor of paraquat, has fired off a warning letter to the U.S. Department of Justice and the DEA: "The product label bears the word poison and the skull-and-crossbones insignia, but terrifying people in order to modify behavior...
...admit men, was issued one day after the death of the ERA ratification drive. In another decision, the court ruled unanimously that the N.A.A.C.P. was not liable for damages as a result of a mostly peaceful boycott. The court decided to put off to next year ruling on a lawsuit challenging the right of a house of Congress to veto regulations issued by federal agencies. But, as detailed in the following report, the court in its closing week did take on child pornography, school busing, the death penalty and some other thorny issues...
WICHITA, Kansas--The director of the dance program at Wichita State University has field a $1.5 million lawsuit in federal court charging that she was denied due process by a university committee that recommended she not be awarded tenure...
...lawsuit charges that one member of the tenure committee, an instructor in the dance program, stated before the committee was appointed that she wanted Holt to leave the university. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week...
Oddly enough, veterans' groups did not even know that their status was before the courts. Said Bertram Davis, national judge advocate of the American Legion: "We were taken quite by surprise." The lawsuit was filed by Taxation with Representation of Washington, a nonprofit group set up to fight for tax-code reform. The group went to court to win the right to a tax deduction for its own contributors; it had no desire to take the long-standing right away from veterans' organizations...