Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American who served in Viet Nam (1967-68), as if the Buis, who send their children to a private academy, do not want them to associate with black children. So many blacks died to allow the Buis the opportunity to live free, and they, like so many other aliens, legal and illegal, look at blacks as people less than desirable to associate with...
...women who have to live with marital violence daily." But other feminists were more optimistic. Despite the defeat, said Noreen Connell of the National Organization for Women, "the very fact that there has been such a case" means other married women will now be less hesitant to seek legal remedy if they are sexually assaulted by their husbands...
...dragging on legitimate discovery demands, and to protect parties from unreasonable ones. In a recent case, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Co. stalled the State of Ohio in its attempts to get at some records in Switzerland. A federal judge ordered the company to pay Ohio $60,000 in legal costs. Another judge, citing "flagrant bad faith," simply threw out the antitrust claim of New York City's Metropolitan Hockey Club Inc. (later Golden Blades) after it failed to respond to hundreds of interrogatories from the defendant, the National Hockey League, for 17 months. Upheld by the Supreme Court...
CLEVELAND, Ohio--A lengthy legal battle by the victims of the 1970 Kent State University shootings ended yesterday with a $675,000 settlement and a statement of regret by Gov. James A. Rhodes and 27 present and former National Guard members...
...Oglesby Paul '38, director of admissions at the Medical School and an ad hoc committee member, said yesterday the committee's recommendations do not mark a radical departure from past procedure, but primarily attempt to resolve legal differences between Steiner and the faculty. "These changes aren't anything earth-shaking," he added...