Word: redresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heated exchange, a member of the audience spoke up angrily against Millet's lack of "seriousness," recalling the case of a rape victim in Minnesota who later learned that photos taken during the rape had been sold to pornographers. Millet's unfamiliarity with the incident and forms of legal redress available in such instances appeared to disappoint and frustrate many. The legalistic and practical tone of MacKinnon's forceful argument, in contrast, emphasizes the critical failure of current laws to provide any redress...
...been involved in coordinated political activities. Its role has been both to intimidate student activists and to deflect responsibility for punishing students away from University Hall. The COI's functions, on the other hand, are ambiguous at best. It has no authority either to levy sanctions or to demand redress. Moreover, it can do little even to investigate grievances. Perhaps the COI's role as a clearinghouse for complaints against the University is a bureaucratic convenience, but it also serves as a buffer for discontent. While the COI purports to discharge the University's responsibility to provide a channel...
Privacy interest do not preclude answers to some key questions, if the Hibbs case is to serve as any indication to harassment victims that they may hopefully seek proper redress: What degree of sexual harassment must occur to result in dismissal from the Faculty? What is the range of punishments for varying degrees of harassment? Moreover, should Harvard, in the face of widespread doubt that it is serious about dealing with sexual harassment, have signed an agreement with Hibbs barring any further discussion of the case...
...well chosen, for it is really written as a cry in the wilderness. Faced with systematic rejection from what Santilli claims are vested interests that exercise almost monopolistic control over physics research in the U.S. he saw no other option but to make a public appeal for recognition and redress of what he calls "scientific corruption at the highest levels of academia...
While such cases determined that the Government could not sue for libel, the question remained whether public officials who claimed injury as individuals were entitled to seek redress. That issue was at the heart of the defining case for modern American libel law, New York Times vs. Sullivan. The dispute involved a political advertisement, critical of Alabama law enforcement and containing inconsequential errors of fact, that appeared in the Times during the black struggle for civil rights. Several officials, who were mentioned in the ad by function although not by name, sued, ostensibly to recoup their reputations. In fact...