Word: petitioners
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When accountants examined the books of the company, which last week filed a bankruptcy petition, they could not determine what had happened to some $60 million in metal reserves the company had claimed to be holding. Only about $900,000 worth of metal owned by Saxon's company was...
Throughout that same day, lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union had been frantically busy. Led by Stefan Presser in Marshall, Texas, the attorneys, who were newly involved in the case, saw their petitions turned down by two state courts, then by a federal district court. Presser asked the Fifth...
At the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Byron White, who oversees the Fifth Circuit, was standing by for a possible new plea in the Autry case. While the circuit court's opinion was being read into a Supreme Court tape recorder, Alvin Bronstein, executive director of the A.C.L.U.'s...
Autry thus became the most vivid symbol to date of the seemingly endless legal confusion and complication that have characterized attempts to carry out the death penalty since the Supreme Court revived it in 1976. Recently, the court has sought to expedite the labyrinthine appeals process, but to little avail...
Continental's pilots hit back late last week by striking the carrier. The pilots' strike could stop the New Continental from staying airborne, but there were signs that the airline might have enough pilots to keep flying despite the walkout. A Continental spokesman said only 350 pilots were...