Word: orinda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nelly Casati Orinda, Calif...
...were when she was one of two women graduating from Stanford University's law school in 1949 ("It was a bumper crop that year"). Nor do law firms now tell female applicants that "we just don't hire women; the secretaries might resent it," as one informed Orinda Evans, 38, now a federal district judge in Georgia, as recently as 1968. In addition, women no longer restrict themselves to the genteel specializations of real estate and probate law, as they did when former Watergate Prosecutor Jill Wine Banks finished Columbia Law School...
...Williams is constitutionally entitled if brought to trial. Williams' petition named, among others, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, the three major TV networks, the New York Times and Post, and both the Associated Press and United Press International (TIME was not named). U.S. Judge Orinda Evans decided last week to consider Williams' petition in two separate hearings: one behind closed doors, for law enforcement defendants, the other open to the public, for defendants in the media...