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...Albert Leon Wilson...
Although the opinion was less sweeping than some had predicted, the court held 6 to 3 that when judges issue search warrants that are later ruled defective, the evidence gathered by police may still be used at trial in most cases. In 1981 Alberto Leon was one of several people indicted on drug-conspiracy charges in California after police searches of their homes and cars had turned up a large quantity of drugs. A judge had issued the warrant, even though it was based on outdated information provided by an informant of uncertain reliability. Two federal courts later threw...
...Sullivan Principles, developed in 1977 by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, are a set of minimum fair labor standards specifically designed for companies operating in the apartheid state...
...when Pusey became president in June of 1953, he inherited the cases of Wendell H. Furry, Leon J. Kamin and Helen Deane Markham. In February Furry, then an associate professor of Physics, had been called before Congressman Harold H. Velde's House Un-American Affairs Committee and had refused to answer any questions. Kamin, a teaching fellow in Social Relations and Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy, had also invoked the Fifth Amendment in March before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee. The Harvard Corporation was faced with a dilemma: what should be done with these professors...
...flurry of sociobiological literature which followed the publication of Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning book has since died down, it seems, and the pendulum might just be swinging the other way Richard Lewontin's new book. Not in Our Genes--which he co-authored with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin--presents the other side of the debate over genetic determinism...