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...eastern portion of the Navajo reservation. The BIA made arrangements for the lease in 1970, although Navajos living in the area never heard anything about the proposal until 1978. Mary C. Largo, a Navajo woman of the Dalton Pass Chapter (an area under lease), signed up as a plaintiff in the December 1978 lawsuit after drilling began on her land allotment without her permission. "I never saw any contract papers, I never put my thumbprint to anything," the 78-year-old Navajo complained. "All at once the trucks and drills started coming onto my land, but nobody from the company...
...Justice William Brennan and Justice Thurgood Marshall said they did not understand how a journalist could be prevented from thinking. Their concern was that journalists would be reluctant to discuss stories openly and frankly among themselves in the newsroom. Brennan would allow questions about these conversations only if the plaintiff could first show that he had been harmed by a false story; Marshall would ban them altogether...
...women are strip-searched in Chicago; men are generally given a pat-down while clothed. Says A.C.L.U. Attorney Lois Lipton: "This practice cut across racial lines, ethnic lines, age lines, religious lines. The only thing these women had in common was that they were women." In fact, one female plaintiff was at the police station accompanying a male friend who had been arrested. Although she was never charged with a crime, she was stripped and searched...
...plus her salary during her absence. The building code requires two steps, not one, and a handrail as well, her lawyer claims. He says Judge O'Malley will never again have full use of her left arm. The city's lawyers aren't surprised that the plaintiff is a judge. "Every time someone falls, we get sued," says one. "It's all part of the inflation thing. It's a great little windfall for everyone...
...their state actions. Weinburg says she is confident that MORAL will be able to win its case, which they took to court yesterday afternoon. Her biggest concern yesterday, however, was that they would be able to obtain a temporary restraining order as soon as possible, so that their first plaintiff would be able to have her abortion today, as she had planned...