Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's court action centered on a legal appeal by three former aides to General Ramon Camps, the onetime police chief of Buenos Aires province. The court decision led to the immediate release of the three officers, along with scores of others who were being held on human rights charges. Camps, who was convicted last December, was not affected by the ruling, and will continue serving a 25-year sentence. Among the five former junta leaders already convicted are ex-President Jorge Rafael Videla and a onetime navy chief, Admiral Emilio Massera, both of whom are serving life terms...
...very need for such legal challenges, however, is a reminder that inequities remain, decisions can be reversed, and statutes can be repealed. "We are at the mercy of a Supreme Court that will interpret equality as it sees fit," says Friedan. Feminists feel the court opened the floodgates to unfair treatment of female students when in February 1984 the Justices $ defanged a law that could be used to stop all federal aid to a school if sex discrimination was shown in any of its education programs, including sports. Legislation that would effectively restore a broad application...
...charged that the black lawyers who recruited Smith and her fellow plaintiffs "were not fighting for the kids in the schools at all. They were fighting for the leadership of blacks and all the empty honors they can get." The plaintiffs turned to the American Civil Liberties Union for legal assistance. It took seven years for the case to come to trial. By then Smith's children, Charles and Kimberly, had graduated...
Nevertheless, Smith took the stand to give an emotional account of the experiences that led her father, a soft-spoken welder at the Santa Fe railroad yards and assistant pastor of St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church, to join the N.A.A.C.P.'s legal struggle against segregation. She described the "feelings of inferiority" suffered by her children because they attended schools that were considered "black" though large numbers of white children attended them. Her lawyers contended that many of Topeka's schools remain "racially identifiable" because of a preponderance of black or white students. They argued that schools with...
...former boss, ex- National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who is due up as a witness early next month? Or could North's testimony be so explosive that he would not risk exposing it to a leak from the private sessions? Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh is not expected to start legal action against North before his congressional appearance. Could the refusal to testify be an attempt to pressure Walsh into indicting him -- thus providing North with a solid argument against the jeopardy of giving any testimony before Congress...