Word: popkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With its action yesterday, the Supreme Court has clearly said that it would be extremely unlikely to agree to hear Popkin's case. With that established, there seem to be few possible steps left to take...
...Popkin could agree to answer the three remaining questions in full, complying with the court order and as the courts say, purging himself of contempt...
...Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, the end of a long legal road seems near. He has walked parts of it, with orderly appeals to higher courts and routine filings of petitions and motions; and he has run other parts, with only 11th-hour stays to keep him from looking at the world from the wrong side of prison bars. Still, no one can tell what he will find when he reaches...
...Popkin filed a petition for a stay with the U.S. Supreme Court last Thursday. If granted, it will allow him and his attorneys to appeal to that court on the civil contempt citations currently pending against...
...Popkin has been engaged in a legal battle for over a year to avoid answering certain questions before the grand jury on the grounds that they are not relevant to the mainstream of its investigation...