Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago, Federal Judge Prentice Marshall had been scheduled to order a new promotion examination for city police patrolmen seeking to become sergeants. Marshall had previously ruled that the city's 1973 exam discriminated against blacks and other minorities, and he had ordered a minority hiring quota for new sergeants. But after the Bakke ruling, Attorney Norman Barry, represent-big 111 patrolmen who had passed the 1973 exam but lost out on promotion through imposition of the quota, argued that his clients deserved promotion before any new exam was ordered. Said he: "My people are victims of Judge Marshall...
...funding for poor women based on the unconstitutionality of their state actions. Weinburg says she is confident that MORAL will be able to win its case, which they took to court yesterday afternoon. Her biggest concern yesterday, however, was that they would be able to obtain a temporary restraining order as soon as possible, so that their first plaintiff would be able to have her abortion today, as she had planned...
...bill, because then there would have been no court precedents to overrule it. MORAL went to work at the end of last week to convince legislators to overturn Dukakis. That way, they can now start again from "square one," as Weinburg puts it, and hope to win a court order overruling the whole bill...
Briefly, it was revealed during the trial that President Carter had, without a court order, authorized wiretaps on Truong and Humphrey after Justice Department officials persuaded him that the pair was dangerous to national security and had to be caught. In the course of the trial, several government officials testified that the documents in question were neither sensitive nor fraught with national security matters--the crux of the government prosecutor's case. Yet Truong and Humphrey were singled out, as if to demonstrate Washington's contempt for Vietnam. While the pair clearly deserves some sentence--pilfering government documents, after...
...secod class are the legitimate whistleblowers, including Frank Snepp, who despite unchallenged care in preventing the compromise of secret material, run the risk of a lifetime gag order and the penalty of forfeiting any earnings from their writings...