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...virtually the same report last November, when Pelton was arrested. Indeed, details on similar submarine eavesdropping operations were revealed in articles in the New York Times and Washington Post as early as the mid-1970s, and the code name Ivy Bells was used by Pelton's attorney in a pretrial hearing...
Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson said he was "pleased" with the decision, but his company will have to agree to stringent conditions if the case is transferred. Carbide must accept the jurisdiction of the Indian courts, pay any judgment assessed and abide by the same rules for pretrial disclosure of information that would apply to a civil case being tried in U.S. federal court...
...market. University of Virginia Law Professor Jeffrey O'Connell, the co-developer of no-fault auto insurance, has proposed a system that would allow a doctor to pay for a victim's economic losses in exchange for being free of further liability. A 1985 Illinois law provides for pretrial panels to rule on the merits of a proposed malpractice suit; the state supreme court is expected to rule this year on whether the panels are constitutional...
...charges were tantalizing, but Agca's claims, as in earlier testimony, were tainted by reversals and errors. He said that the mysterious Soviet diplomat who purportedly put up the more than $1 million to kill the Pope went by the name of "Milenkov or Malenkov." During pretrial testimony, however, Agca had identified one "Malenkov" as a Bulgarian spy who had introduced him to a Soviet attache in Tehran in 1980. More baffling still, in January 1984 Agca said he had invented both Malenkov and the Soviet official. Last week Agca described the bombing of the radio stations as having taken...
...allows judges to admit illegally seized evidence as long as the police acted "in good faith." The Justices also have weakened the Miranda protections under which suspects must be granted counsel before answering police questions. Since the court's 1976 decision allowing capital punishment, 37 states have resumed executions. Pretrial detention of potentially violent defendants is now permitted in different forms in some 30 states...