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Harvard lawyers will come before Judge David Woodlock in an informal pretrial session to discuss the case of former Associate Professor of Industrial Marketing Barbara Bund Jackson, who claimed in a suit filed in 1984 that the Business School denied her tenure because...
...verdict is expected before next March, a daunting prospect for the two judges, six jurors, two prosecutors and 60-some lawyers working to bring the case to a close. The trial's duration may mean losing some of the minor defendants as their maximum pretrial detention period expires. Perhaps presaging limited results for Palermo, a Mob appeals trial in Naples ended last week with directed acquittals for 114 of 191 defendants...
...poured out of the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killing more than 2,000 people. Since then, Carbide officials have offered allegations that the world's worst industrial accident may have been the result of a deliberate act. Last week the company went further, declaring that their pretrial investigation was focused on a disgruntled employee. According to an earlier report in the London Times, the employee, an Indian citizen, might have been trying to spoil a batch of the chemical after a row with his supervisor...
...been shown with convincing clarity." Specifically, said White, judges must assess such evidence in light of the stringent "clear and convincing" standard of the landmark 1964 libel case, New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan. The effect would be to make libel complaints more difficult to justify at the pretrial stage...
...reasonings. It left standing the chief emblem of the Warren era's expansion of defendants' rights, the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights before interrogation. But it allowed police to dispense with Miranda warnings in emergency situations, weakened the rights of suspects during pretrial procedures and identified some circumstances in which illegally obtained evidence could be admitted in court...