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Supreme Court Justice Thurgood W. Marshall presided over the final argument of the Ames Moot Court Competition last night before 600 people at the Law School...
...picture that will fund his "own" movie in Nashville, but with a few exceptions California Split is not a cheap turn-on picture. It's just a muted, funny movie that is very close to American life, and to call it empty would be like calling life empty--a moot point...
...President, the committee unanimously recommended that he should have been impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate for obstructing justice in trying to cover up the true origins of the 1972 wiretap and burglary of Democratic national headquarters. Although Nixon's resignation has rendered the matter moot, the full House accepted the report by a vote...
Last week an attack materialized. People's Lobby, a California citizens' action group, petitioned the state supreme court for the right to challenge Reinecke's status. The question may well be moot before the courts can deal with the basic issues. Meanwhile Reinecke continues at his various jobs, which include voting positions on the University of California board of regents and the state lands commission. Although no serious complications now seem likely, Ronald Reagan's frequent out-of-state speechmaking trips technically shift the governorship to the next in line. After one such recent trip, James...
...legal process took so long though that third-year student DeFunis was scheduled to graduate this spring no matter how the Supreme Court ruled. To the disappointment of the braced opponents, five of the Justices seized on this factual quirk and declared the case moot because DeFunis' law-school status no longer presented a controversy. The minority contended that the court was really "straining to rid itself of this dispute...