Word: redressing
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...Does a confessed murderer have any redress when his court-appointed lawyer refuses to represent him on appeal? He does indeed, ruled a Tokyo court. Katsumi Ohnishi had been sentenced to death for poisoning his parents and stealing their savings, then butchering two strangers for their identity papers. When Lawyer Toichi Yasutomi was appointed to handle Murderer Ohnishi's appeal, he asked to be replaced because he was convinced that Ohnishi's crime was hideous and that the sentence was just. Months later, all appeals lost, in a last gesture of defiance the convicted criminal sued the respected...
...single program at Harvard or elsewhere can redress a balance between scholarship and pedagogy that has long been missing. But a start should be made at many levels. Individual Faculty members can demand excellence in teaching, in themselves and in course assistants equally. Departments can watch their teaching fellows-and their instructors and assistant professors-closely, and let them know that teaching ability will count heavily in recommendations for advancement. Finally, the Corporation can make enthusiasm for, and ability in, teaching a firm prerequisite for appointment to the tenured ranks...
...majority opinion, handed down by Chief Judge Elbert P. Tuttle of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and District Judge Lewis R. Morgan, was based on the Civil Rights Act of 1870, which gives district courts jurisdiction over civil actions by individuals seeking redress of denial of their constitutional rights by a state or its officials. In his dissent, District Judge J. Robert Elliott, a Kennedy appointee with a past record of pro-segregation views, held that a federal court should not interfere in proceedings before state courts...
...upon sympathizers everywhere for a "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." Representatives of different, often rival, organizations got together, fired out to state and local representatives volley after volley of handbooks, bulletins, press releases, charts, schedules, visceral warnings and soul-stirring exhortations. Said one broadside: "We march to redress old grievances and to help resolve an American crisis born of the twin evils of racism and deprivation." The march organizers listed the demands that the parade would symbolize. Among them: 1) passage of the Kennedy Administration's civil rights legislative package-"without compromise or filibuster"; 2) integration...
...questioning the right of citizens to march, or whether the March should be peaceful. He is raising fundamental questions of what are the best means available to effect social change. And, he has justified two means of effecting social change: legislative remedy and petition by the governed for the redress of grievances. One may assume, I trust, that these means of change are still real alternatives. And, I assume furthur, that Mr. Russin is not suggesting they are the only alternatives, that simply because Congressmen may not be responsive to the March, that Negroes and their allies ought...