Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would also ask him if he were prepared to take the legal consequences of this action. If he were, I would respect his decision...
While a young man is free to resist the draft for reasons other than those permitted by law, the resister must face the legal consequences of his action. I would thus oppose granting amnesty...
...consent of officialdom, parents and nonstriking teachers staged "legal breakins" at schools that had been sealed off by janitors, who changed or jammed the locks; as many as 97,000 pupils a day succeeded in entering classrooms. Some parents camped in the schools so that their children could not be locked out again. What began as a labor dispute grew from day to day into a more fundamental quarrel of the teachers' union, politics, race and culture, tearing at the five boroughs of what had always been regarded as the most liberal, tolerant and cosmopolitan city in America...
...would require either overall federal legislation or individual action by the states, share with the Keeton-O'Connell plan the idea that auto-insurance companies should promptly pay off their policyholders regardless of who is to blame for an accident. The A.I.A. contends that by dispensing with the legal need to prove negligence, a requirement that often ties up insurance cases for years, insurers could not only settle accident claims more quickly but could reduce premiums by an average of one-third...
...Keeton-O'Connell plan aims to minimize legal hassles over settlements but preserves the policyholder's right to go to court to ask for damages in certain cases. The A.I.A. plan, by contrast, would rule out virtually all liability suits. It would also specifically bar payments for "pain and suffering," which presently account for some of the most generous damage settlements arising out of auto accidents. The practice of suing for pain and suffering, charged the A.I.A., leads to "dramatization of injury" and "panders to the 'jackpot urge...