Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your November 12 opinion piece, titled "Ole Time Religion," is misleading and incorrect...
Last week a federal district judge in Baltimore overturned his conviction. Judge Frederic Smalkin based his opinion on a Supreme Court ruling last June that the federal mail-fraud statute should not be invoked in cases of government corruption. If upheld on appeal, the decision could clear Mandel's criminal record and compensate the former Governor and his co-defendants for thousands of dollars in fines...
...throwing away the warp and woof of America's cities. In only 20 years, marvels James Marston Fitch, an internationally known preservationist, "the whole balance has radically changed in our favor. I'm astonished at what a complete turnabout there has been in the whole climate of public opinion...
Nonetheless, Kennedy's opinion did not slam the door on comparable worth. He left open the possibility that in a different case -- and several are pending in other states -- a different set of facts might establish that unequal pay scales did indeed result from discrimination and were thus illegal. Says Winn Newman, an attorney for the union that lost the Washington case: "His decision went to the facts. The open question is what facts constitute a basis for a court to infer that the reason for disparity was discrimination...
...First Amendment cases, Kennedy's opinions have pleased the press. In 1978, for example, a plaintiff who had been convicted in an insurance scandal demanded to see film of a show NBC was preparing on the case, arguing that it might inflame public opinion and jeopardize his chances of parole. A lower court ordered NBC to surrender the film, but Kennedy struck down the ruling as being "aimed toward prepublication censorship." Said the judge: "It is a fundamental principle of the First Amendment that the press may not be required to justify or defend what it prints or says until...