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...defendants an admission that the movie had "unintentionally defamed" her. All new copies, including new videocassettes, must now carry prominent disclaimers labeling the story as fiction. She was also awarded $150,000, a sum that will just about cover her current legal expenses. Said her attorney, Harry L. Manion III: "We've won a permanent record for all the world...
...Biden. Under Democratic rule, the panel will inevitably give the President a difficult time on judicial appointments. In the past year, even with a Republican majority, the committee helped defeat the district-court nomination of right-wing Ideologue Jefferson Sessions and waged tough fights against the nominations of Daniel Manion to the Seventh Circuit Appeals Court and William Rehnquist to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Moreover, the Judiciary Committee deals with such matters as civil rights, abortion and school prayer. Any new initiative by Attorney General Edwin Meese on those social issues is bound to hit a roadblock with...
...incumbent, Slade Gorton of Washington, probably wished Reagan had stayed home. When the President visited Washington in October, Gorton was already suffering from bad publicity resulting from his agreement to trade his vote for a favor from the Justice Department in the Dan Manion appointment hearings...
...Republicans can count their lucky Warren Burgers that the Chief Justice resigned when he did. Would a Judiciary Committee headed by Teddy Kennedy or Joe Biden have approved the nomination of William Rehnquist to the top spot on the top court? Maybe. Probably. But Dan Manion, for one, wouldn't have stood a prayer...
...Attorney General, though, seemed to suggest that more vigorous kinds of opposition by officials were also legitimate. Without mentioning him by name, Meese cited with approval the example of newly appointed Federal Judge Daniel Manion, who as an Indiana legislator once introduced a bill just slightly different from a law already declared constitutionally invalid. To Meese's critics, his most troubling contention was that in general only the parties to a suit are bound by a court decision, which implied that no one else was. "What makes the law effective is voluntary compliance," says the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational...