Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision overturning Scalia's opinion, the court seemed to say, "Ignore previous message." Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White held that when examining a motion for summary judgment, judges must determine "whether the evidence presented is such that a reasonable jury might find that actual malice had been shown with convincing clarity." Specifically, said White, judges must assess such evidence in light of the stringent "clear and convincing" standard of the landmark 1964 libel case, New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan. The effect would be to make libel complaints more difficult to justify at the pretrial stage...
...insane prisoners. The decision came in a Florida case involving convicted Killer Alvin B. Ford. The court found that Florida's procedures for determining his sanity before execution were inadequate and ordered new proceedings. Yet even if Ford is found insane, Justice Lewis Powell noted in a separate concurring opinion, he could be executed once he is deemed to be cured...
...first, public opinion in Peru seemed to back President Alan Garcia Perez's bold decision to let the armed forces crush three coordinated prison rebellions, although at least 250, and possibly 400, radical inmates were killed. Last week the President again put his popularity on the line. Facing % the gravest crisis of his eleven months in office, Garcia said in a televised address that paramilitary police at one prison massacred some 30 to 40 inmates who had already surrendered. All of the victims belonged to the Maoist- oriented Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas, who have been waging a terrorist campaign...
Justice William J. Brennan, in the court's majority opinion, said: "We hold that [federal law] does not prohibit a court from ordering, in appropriate circumstances, affirmative race-conscious relief as a remedy for past discrimination...
...been outspoken about affirmative action, citing the need to maintain current federal laws mandating that employers meet goals in hiring minorities and women. In an opinion piece printed in the Washington Post earlier this year, Bok attacked efforts by the Justice Department to dismantle current affirmative action laws...