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...practice, who had initiated and participated in the proceedings against him. His claim: conspiracy to eliminate a competitor. Though the law partly protects physicians who serve on peer-review panels from antitrust actions, the court ruled 8 to 0 that this protection did not apply here; it upheld a lower-court award of $2.2 million in damages to Dr. Patrick...
...midst of McNamara's interview with TIME, orders for her freedom suddenly arrived. The lower-court judge investigating her case decided to drop it because of insufficient evidence. That decision must be ratified by a superior court, however, before the matter is closed. Minutes after receiving the good news, the prisoners gathered downstairs to bid the American farewell. "Goodbye to Canto Grande," they sang in Quechua, exchanging the traditional Andean lyrics for revolutionary rhetoric. "I am going to fight for justice . . . for the peasants and the poor, armed with a gun and a flag . . . I will fight the fascists...
...court's ruling is unlikely to cause serious problems for the Iran- contra probe headed by Lawrence E. Walsh or for Independent Counsel James McKay's prosecution of White House Aide Lyn Nofziger. Last year both prosecutors accepted backup appointments from the Justice Department. Prosecutor Morrison refused similar protection. Earlier last week the Supreme Court put to rest for now questions about the validity of such "parallel appointments" by leaving intact a lower-court decision that turned aside a challenge brought by Lieut. Colonel Oliver North...
...parody under discussion last week was aimed not at a Founding Father but at the Rev. Jerry Falwell. In 1983 Hustler magazine had portrayed Falwell in a drunken rendezvous with his mother. Although a lower-court jury cleared Publisher Larry Flynt of libel because the statements were so ridiculous that no one took them as fact, it awarded Falwell $200,000 for his "emotional distress." Despite Hustler's sleazy nature, other publications have joined in support of the appeal. Reason: the legal concept of "emotional distress" might allow public figures to sue the authors of any critical commentary based...
...bench, Kennedy is best known for his decision, later upheld by the Supreme Court, that the legislative veto is unconstitutional. He also overturned a controversial lower-court ruling finding that female workers in Washington state were entitled to be paid based on the "comparable worth" of their positions...