Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal legal precedent, based on the United States Supreme Court ruling in Swain vs. Alabama (1965), still allows lawyers to consider race in jury selection in federal courts...
...attorney for Boston-Boston told the Boston Licensing Board (BLB) yesterday that because Harvard students are not a "separate racial or ethnic group," legal action against the disco because of its policy of offering free admission to Harvard students would not be justified...
Brickman, however, has an advocate in Common Cause Director Jay H. Hedlund, who says his organization may take legal action against the legislature if it continues its stall tactics. "We're just not so sure that the legislature has the authority to specify what kind of positions the commission can have," Hedlund explains. "We are well aware of the commission's problems and will be working to pressure both the Ways and Means Committees and the full legislature...
...Should legal action fail, the commission can still bypass the legislature by using investigators from other agencies. An obscure section of the law allows the commissioner of public safety to loan personnel to the commission among them the State Police. "But clearly that is not the best way to go about it," Hedlund notes, "because other agencies don't want their budgets tapped...
Although it still lacks investigators, the commission does have the power to take "punitive action" against anyone violating the ethics statute. The board may suspend an official's job, stop his pay, or in extreme situations, refer the case to the attorney general for legal action. The maximum penalty for a breach of ethics...