Word: quash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department began to issue subpoenas in large numbers for material that the press has always considered privileged. Last June the Supreme Court ruled in the Government's favor, saying that the First Amendment does not offer automatic protection against such subpoenas. The issue remains cloudy. The courts can quash individual subpoenas, and Congress is considering giving newsmen a statutory shield. Meanwhile, newsmen who print material that arouses a grand jury's curiosity may still face a choice between divulging their sources or going to jail. But if ever there was proof of the need for the press...
...sweep of the subpoenas brought a sharp retort from news executives. New York Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger said: "The Times will take all legal steps to have the subpoena quashed." Officials of TIME declared that such a sweeping subpoena is "an invasion" of Fischer's rights under the First Amendment. They explained that "While Time Inc.'s policy does not demand resistance to every subpoena of a newsman, the crucial factor here is that there has been no showing whatsoever that the documents and information demanded of Mr. Fischer are necessary to the resolution of the case...
ALTHOUGH THREE WEEKS AGO the Faculty Council helped quash five amendments to reform the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, it was not able to prevent the Faculty from establishing a committee to review the Commission of Inquiry. The study was undertaken chiefly because few Faculty members envision any change in the Commission emerging from it. Another reason is that the members of the Commission were anxious to see their work reviewed...
...grand jury in arriving at its initial determinations." In a concurring opinion, Justice Lewis Powell Jr. stressed the "limited nature" of the decision. A newsman who feels that subpoena powers against him are being abused, Justice Powell wrote, "will have access to the court on a motion to quash and an appropriate protective order may be entered"-a proviso that suggests that the court would be willing to consider some form of privilege on a case-by-case basis...
...economic system. The job of the new populists is to show these members of the white working class that blacks must be their allies, rather than their enemies. But to do this they must be explicit and by hedging on issues like busing and welfare, all they do is quash out any hopes for a new populism...