Word: lewises
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--Excerpt of a brief by Harvard University etc. quoted by Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell in his opinion for the Bakke case.
National Chairman Lewis B. ("Bud") Maytag would say only that Pan Am's offer would be carefully studied. But he has fought Texas International's bid from the start. National executives dislike the idea of being swallowed by a relatively small regional airline, and in fact they had been talking...
In 1974, when Olivia was nine, she was raped by three girls and a boy with a beer bottle on a San Francisco beach. Just four days earlier, NBC-TV had aired a movie called Born Innocent, which depicted four female inmates of a detention home raping a teen-age...
Personal Injury Lawyer Lewis sought to try the case by the same negligence standard used in an ordinary whiplash suit. NBC should have foreseen that its movie might inspire violent crime, he maintained; therefore the network, like a homeowner who leaves a banana peel lying on his front stoop where...
Though speech that intentionally incites violence is not protected by the First Amendment, allowed Abrams, drama or news reports that merely portray violence are covered. Lewis argued vehemently against this First Amendment defense. If intentional "incitement" were accepted as the test for finding NBC and KRON-TV guilty, he told...