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...very least, Justice's wariness raises questions about why it moved against Bell at a time when the economy is so shaky. Part of the answer may he in the play of personalities in a new and still largely undefined Administration. Career trustbusters have long chafed to overturn the Eisenhower Administration consent decree, which they view as an affront to the Antitrust Division. In August 1973, some lower-level Justice staffers dusted off the Bell files and mounted an investigation. After 15 months and two changes of Attorneys...
Harvard is considering legal action to overturn the downzoning of the Agassiz neighborhood that the city council approved last week, Charles U. Daly, vice president for community and government affairs, said yesterday...
Jaworski was especially emphatic on one point: he had no intention of challenging Ford's right to pardon Nixon, since he was convinced of its legality. He said it would have been "intellectually dishonest" for him to have tried to overturn the pardon in court; such "a spurious proceeding," he added, would have amounted to "unprofessional conduct" on his part. Jaworski strongly urged that his top deputy, Henry S. (Hank) Ruth Jr., be named his successor. Ruth, a quiet but effective attorney from Pennsylvania, had also served as deputy to the first special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, and had helped...
...that he was eligible because he had always intended to return to South Carolina. Initially, no one bothered to appeal the decision, probably because Ravenel was not expected to win the primary. But when he did, his opponents began to consider the letter of the law. A suit to overturn Ravenel's candidacy was brought by two unlikely litigants, Ben Dekle, a right-wing disc jockey, and Milton Dukes, a restaurant owner who perpetually runs for office and never wins. Last month the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled 5 to 0 that Ravenel could...
...company reported no cases of angiosarcoma; its evidence thus indicated that amount as a safe level of exposure. Moreover, the industry says that it simply does not have the technology to comply with the new restriction, and the Society of the Plastics Industry has sued to overturn OSHA's ruling...