Word: plaintiff
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While the present members of the group, Gay People of Georgetown University, have little involvement in the case, the Washington gay community, with the backing of D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, has taken up the plaintiff's side. Experts say the U.S. Supreme Court may ultimately decide the matter, which sets in opposition concepts of freedom of religion and sexual freedom...
...National Organization for Women, said her group would "raise hell" over the decision, and lauded the concept as a tool that women can use "to break out of the ghetto of low wages." Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a plaintiff in the Washington suit, called comparable worth "pay equity for workingwomen." McEntee said the union intends to appeal last week's decision to the Supreme Court...
...covering the turmoil in the South. In a unanimous 1964 ruling, the Supreme Court wrote of the paramount importance of "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open" discussion, praised the unique role of the press in fostering free debate, and threw out an earlier state court verdict won by an Alabama plaintiff...
While McChristian testified, he did not look at his former boss, who sat 20 feet away. Westmoreland, the plaintiff in a $120 million libel suit against CBS News, has charged that a 1982 documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, falsely accused him of "conspiracy at the highest levels of military intelligence" to mislead President Lyndon Johnson about the success of the war of attrition against Communist insurgents. CBS contends that the documentary was true and that much of the program's evidence came from Westmoreland's colleagues...
...system worked," said Floyd Abrams, a New York lawyer who specializes in First Amendment cases. "Here the jury distinguished between a mistake and a lie. Most juries have not been able to do that, and consequently we have had a 75% reversal rate (of verdicts for the plaintiff) on appeal." The Washington Post editorialized: "The procedural technique of having a jury decide each element of the suit separately can help ensure that the difficult standard for libel claims set by the Supreme Court...