Word: mooted
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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), are not public officers but do have the power to make arrests and obtain and exercise search warrants. If passed through the Senate, the House and into law, the bill would render a recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decision “moot,” said Colin B. Durrant, who serves as press secretary for State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios ’90. Barrios sponsored the bill, which first reached the Senate floor on Jan. 18. Ruling on a lawsuit filed by The Crimson against HUPD regarding the release of incident reports...
...defense is a little more formidable. As he put it on Larry King, "the emotional truth is there." In other words, whatever the nitty-gritty bookkeepers turn up, his story has an empathic force, a psychological power, that makes the actual factual status of his writing kind of moot, and renders trivial the question of where it should be shelved in the bookstore...
...appeal backfired by reopening dissent against the Washington campaign itself. Andrew Young warned that the whole plan might be moot for the year, anyway, as the tangled logistics could well push the start back into June, when the summer recess of Congress would deprive them of "Pharaoh" rulers to plague. Young proposed to make constructive use of delay, and questioned the enormous effort to assemble and maintain a novel protest army of polyglot poor people in Washington. He doubted King's white attorney and closest confidant Stanley Levison's analogy with the Bonus Marchers of 1932-34, whose suffering...
Harvard Law School students last night debated the constitutionality of juvenile curfews before Supreme Court Justice David Souter in the annual Ames Moot Court competition. The contest draws some of the country’s prominent legal minds to judge the final round. Along with Justice Souter, Emilio Garza of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Ilana Diamond Rovner for the Seventh Circuit were on the bench this year. Last night’s arguments culminated a year of effort by two teams of six students, who won the opportunity to compete after defeating several...
...Liberty Counsel, an influential conservative litigation group that earlier this year won a court order blocking a Montgomery County, Md., teachers' guide that disparaged Evangelicals for their views on gays. "They"--gay activists--"know if they make enough inroads into [schools], the same-sex-marriage battle will be moot...