Word: overturning
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Last week, a somewhat chastened Administration asked Congress in effect to overturn the Stanford Daily decision. Saying that the ruling "poses dangers to the effective functioning of our free press," President Carter submitted a bill that would impose a virtual ban on police searches and seizures of a reporter's "work product," which means his notes, drafts, tapes and film. The bill would protect not only journalists but scholars and authors-anyone involved in disseminating information to the public. The ban permits two exceptions: police can still make surprise searches for material held by someone who is suspected...
When all legal efforts failed to overturn the conviction of Patty Hearst for armed robbery, her lawyers and friends mounted a campaign to persuade President Carter to commute her sentence. They argued that Patty had suffered enough and indeed had been treated with special severity by the law because of the wealth and social prominence of her family. Thousands of calls and letters poured into the White House urging her release...
...marches symbolize a deepening acrimony over abortion that has become a serious threat to ecumenical relations. Just about every U.S. denomination is involved. For years, the "prolife" (of the fetus) and "prochoice" (of the mother) religious forces squared off over proposed constitutional amendments that would overturn the 1973 ruling. Today the struggle is centered mainly on the issue of public funding of abortion, specifically the federal law that limits Medicaid payments for abortions to cases involving rape, incest or serious threats to the mother's life or health. Before the law was passed in 1977, 209 liberal Protestants...
...October 1975. In a play immortalized across the nation's sports pages by a UPI photographer, Harvard cornerback Billy Emper makes one of the single greatest plays ever in Harvard sports. With Dartmouth threatening to overturn the Crimson, Emper comes all the way across the field, leaps like a cross between Doctor J and an Acapulco cliff diver, and ticks away what seems like a certain long-bomb TD pass with his fingertip...
...court ruled on a similar case in 1972 in which the reporter lost, Katz said, adding that the court will not rule the case moot if it wishes to overturn or strongly reaffirm this decision...