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...Price Waterhouse also had reason to celebrate. The court found that the firm had earlier been held to too high a standard of proof in rebutting Hopkins' claims. Thus, when the case is reheard in a lower federal court, Price Waterhouse's task will be somewhat less onerous. Instead of having to present "clear and convincing evidence" that it declined to promote Hopkins for nondiscriminatory reasons, the firm will only be required to back that claim with a "preponderance" of evidence -- a less rigorous standard...
...establishments and partly because the restaurant was within 500 feet of a church. Shortly thereafter, in a suit brought by the Harvard Square restaurant Grendel's, the Supreme Court held that churches and schools could not have absolute veto power over liquor licenses for nearby establishments. So the commission reheard Ruggles' case in early 1983. But again Ruggles was denied...
...standards, but the incident showed that the court has internal checks and balances. Lobbying by outsiders is shown to be futile. When the Washington lawyer and Franklin Roosevelt brain-truster Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran visited his old friend Black and acquaintance Brennan to get a controversial antitrust decision reheard, or when New York Times Editor James ("Scotty") Reston telephoned Burger to talk about the Pentagon papers case, they were quickly rebuffed...
Glen W. Bowersock '57, professor of Greek and Latin and Chairman of the CRR, said yesterday that the Committee's decision means that at least one student--Ellen Messing '73--will have her case reheard before...
...Democrat three years ago for $60,000. Within a year, his stories on apparent corruption in the county roads department had led to the indictment of the supervisor for embezzlement. On the first day of the trial (which ended in a hung jury and has yet to be reheard), Hicks was brutally beaten in front of his office by two teenagers, one a preacher's son. According to an informant, both admitted having received $30 and a gallon of moonshine to do the job. At their trial the prosecutor muttered: "If they'd been offered $50 to kill...