Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal front, the union is still busy with litigation attempting to remedy past illegal acts by Stevens. Recently the Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that Stevens was in contempt for multiple violations of previous court orders. Stevens is liable for fines of $100,000 for each violation and $5000 per day for violations of a continuing nature. These fines as well as court ordered admissions of guilt should make Stevens hesitant about continuing its unlawful acts...
...outraged Mexican Americans, who staged a protest march through downtown Houston. "I think our community is at the end of its rope," cried State Representative Ben Reyes. Similarly angered by the second light verdict, Prosecutor Canales last week obtained Bell's personal approval and then filed a rare legal challenge to Judge Sterling's sentence, demanding prison terms of ten years. Argued the Justice Department: "The U.S. has grave concern that the imposition of probation in this case will cause citizens of all races and backgrounds to believe that the sentence was a result of continuing inequality...
...policemen's defense lawyers promptly retorted that the U.S. Attorney was "making political speeches rather than legal points." Indeed there were grounds to question Justice's actions. Technically, the only way the Justice Department could find to challenge Judge Sterling was to claim that suspension of the sentence was illegal for so serious a crime under federal law. One expert on Justice Department procedures argued: "The Houston sentence is not illegal and the department knows it isn't illegal. But there's no other way to appeal...
...madmen. In Holocaust, most Nazis are seemingly normal people who all too easily answer the call of a racist and fascist government. One of the show's principal characters is an intelligent lawyer and family man, Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), who rises in the SS by dreaming up "legal" justifications for the Führer's extermination program. We also meet doctors, technicians and clergymen who lend their aid to the Nazi cause. These characters, like the famous Nazi leaders who appear (Eichmann, Heydrich, Himmler), are played without German accents by such skilled actors as David Warner, Robert...
Three Years Old District 65's organizing efforts began three years ago and have faced consistently stiff opposition from the University. Through a seriies of legal appeals, Harvard delayed a union election on the grounds that the Medical Area clerical and technical workers did not form a separate geographical unit and so had to seek representation within a University-wide bargaining unit...