Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Focusing on ethics in the legal context, Bruce says topics of discussion in his course have included whether one should use improperly obtained evidence, as well as the importance of protecting individual rights in controversial cases...
...wanted to learn about the legal aspects of medicine," Paula A. Johnson '80, one pre-med student in the course, says. "I was more interested in the practical problems facing doctors than in the ethical ones...
...courtroom, "Moro is in the hands of the proletariat, and he will be tried. Long live the Red Brigades!" The defendants refused to cooperate with their court-appointed counsel, but Judge Guido Barbaro rejected a request that the prisoners be allowed to represent themselves. Having resolved the legal ruckus, the court ordered the trial to resume again this week...
...business and legal communities were astonished in January when a federal jury of two men and eight women found Eastman Kodak Co. guilty of monopolistic practices in a case brought by New York-based Berkey Photo, Inc., a relatively small competitor. When the same jury last week fixed the penalty, the reaction was genuine shock. Kodak, said the jurors, should pay Berkey $37.6 million in damages-and that was just the beginning. Because standard procedure is to triple damages for violation of antitrust law, the court is expected to raise the award to $112.8 million, one of the largest judgments...
...amount been paid last year, it would have taken a bite out of Kodak's profits of $643.4 million, which it earned on sales of nearly $6 billion. Kodak will doubtless avoid paying anything for years, while it carries appeals to higher courts. But the legal battle stands to cloud the future of a company that has suffered some reverses lately. Kodak has been less than victorious in its battle with Polaroid in the instant-camera market, and Kodak's stock has plunged from a 1973 high of 151¾ to last week's 42⅛. What...