Word: pima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Volpin was released from the Pima County Jail yesterday after finishing a two-month sentence for contempt before the Grand Jury in November. She received a subpoena ordering her to appear today before the Grand Jury as she was leaving the jail...
Another hearing, concerning her refusal to heed the court's order, was convened, but the judge rescheduled the hearing for tomorrow, since the transcript of today's Grand Jury proceedings had not yet been prepared. She will almost certainly be convicted of contempt tomorrow and returned to the Pima County Jail...
...both sides agree that many court cases could be avoided by a sensible system of pretrial arbitration like that adopted in Pima County, Ariz., in 1957 and since copied in various forms in about 20 other states. In Arizona, a panel of doctors and lawyers screens malpractice claims to determine whether or not the patient really has a case. If they think he has, they recommend that it be settled out of court. Neither doctors nor patients are bound by the panel's decisions. But most go along, and for good reason. In 13 years, no plaintiff turned down...
...Camera, have moved onto Indian reservations, enticed by the freedom from real estate taxes accorded reservation enterprises ?and by cheap labor. They provide jobs and profits for individual Indians as well as their tribes. Simpson Cox, a white Phoenix lawyer, has spent 22 years with the Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indians, successfully pressing the Government to compensate the tribe fairly for confiscating their lands. He has helped them build industrial parks, a tourist center, a trade school, farms, community centers and an airstrip...