Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...places in the world where one can see a full-scale live reproduction of the pageantry of a Renaissance court." The Christian concept of authority, McKenzie concludes, is not an impersonal rule of law, but an I-Thou rule of men over other men who freely choose to obey their governors and who have a right to share in decision making...
...contention that such a ruling will "impose an undue burden" on tavernkeepers, the judge was unimpressed. He could see nothing but a benefit to "the public interest" if Jersey tavernkeepers obey the law and exercise reasonable care about whom they serve. However, because the trial judge made errors in his instructions to the jury, the case was sent back for a new trial...
...Corporation to take no action until constitutional issues raised in the M.I.T. suit are settled. Harvard had nothing to lose by quietly honoring Bowles's request for a postponement until that suit is adjudicated. Sargent Kennedy, Secretary to the Corporation, has insisted that Harvard "had no choice but to obey the laws of the Commonwealth." Yet he has admitted that a college or university cannot be prosecuted if one of its teachers refuses to sign the oath; the University would not have been liable if it had held off until the fall, when the M.I.T. case will be heard...
...Instead of "knowing" the difference between right and wrong, the defendant is now subject to the subtler requirement of "appreciating" it. Similarly, proving the act a "product" of the disease now becomes the more reasonable task of showing that the disease resulted in a loss of "substantial capacity" to obey the law. "We do not delude ourselves in the belief that the American Law Institute test is perfect," concluded Kaufman. But "the impossibility of guaranteeing that a new rule will always be infallible cannot justify continued adherence to an outmoded standard...
...countermove, Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, filed a suit of its own in Georgia superior court, requesting that the Braves be enjoined to fulfill their contracts in Atlanta. In December, the Georgia court issued a temporary injunction, and since the league has told the Braves to obey, there is little doubt that the injunction will become permanent next week when a final order...