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Ruth brought suit against the state, which owns the resort. Rabbi Herschel Small testified that the Talmudic law of Yichud did indeed prohibit Ruth from sitting up overnight in the chair alone with young Jack. Last year a jury awarded Ruth $35,000 in damages and her father $2,231 for actual medical costs. Ruth married a rabbi after the ski-lift incident, but the marriage has been annulled...
...Deep South, a harsh reality remains in Mississippi courts: white men accused of violent crimes against Negroes are almost never convicted. About the only time such offenders are punished is when they are tried in federal courts under statutes enacted during Reconstruction times. Among those antique laws, several prohibit conspiracy to deprive any citizen of his civil rights, and last week a federal judge in Vicksburg concluded that one of man's most basic civil rights is his right to live. U.S. District Court Judge William Harold Cox, a stubborn segregationist, decided that the Ku Klux Klan, and three...
...morals laws which University lawyers had cited to support hours restrictions prohibit the operator of a "lodging house" from "knowingly" permitting a woman to be there "for the purpose of unlawfully having sexual intercourse...
Fire regulations which prohibit standing and overcrowding compelled Rowland and head section man David Van Fossen to institute this measure. It seems no larger lecture room is available...
...time, the agency also brought fraud charges against the recipients of the information. All are large institutional investors, including the Dreyfus Corp., the Madison Fund and Investors Management Co. All were accused of violating SEC regulations, issued under the 1933 Securities Act and the 1934 Securities Exchange Act, that prohibit insiders from acting on information before it becomes public knowledge...