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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Gilmore's ruling applies to the entire 1980 census, the plaintiff before him was just Detroit. The Census Bureau's preliminary figures indicated that the city's population had decreased by nearly 24% in ten years, to 1.2 million. But Mayor Coleman Young's staff, basing their estimates on the number of occupied housing units in the city, argued that Barabba's enumerators missed 120,000 people, most of them blacks in the city's ghettos. Unless the figures are corrected, argued Young's lawyers, one of Michigan's 19 congressional...
McNally, along with fellow plaintiff Andy Messersmith and Curt Flood, who lost a similar case five years earlier, freed major leaguers from the shackles of the reserve clause. A federal court ruled that he did not have to report to the Montreal Expos if he did not want...
Madalyn Murray O'Hair became the nation's best-known atheist in 1963 when, partly as a result of her suit, the U.S. Supreme Court forbade mandatory prayers in public schools. A fellow plaintiff in protesting Bible reading and/or recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Baltimore schools was her teen-age son William J. Murray III. He went on to become a publisher, but later joined his mother in Austin, Texas. In 1975 he reorganized the headquarters of her American Atheists and revived its monthly magazine. In 1977 he broke with his mother and tried...
...April 29 hearing, attorneys for the plaintiff called the law a "mammoth piece of legislation...awesome in its magnitude," and complained that the statute deprived owners of the right to dispose of their property as they wished...
...hours of oral arguments, attorneys for the plaintiff called the law a "mammoth piece of legislation...awesome in its magnitude," and complained that property owners were deprived of their right to dispose of their property as they wished under...