Word: suedes
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DeLuca was one of two officers who arrested Lawrence Largey, aged 17, on October 21, 1972, on charges of drunkenness and assault. When Largey was found dead in his cell three hours after his arrest the Largey family sued the city, alleging that he had been brutalized.
Legal Loophole. The case was initiated in 1966 by Dorothy Gautreaux -who died in 1969-and five other blacks. They sued the Chicago Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for perpetuating segregation by building low-cost apartment complexes for blacks almost exclusively in inner-city...
Denouncing the Inquirer piece as "treasonable" and "garbage journalism," he sued the newspaper for $6 million in libel damages. Five days later, 250 members of the pro-Rizzo Building and Construction Trades Council blockaded the Inquirer building for ten hours, stopped distribution of two editions and beat up two of...
OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT. "As the presumed watchdog of democracy, the press must watch over the judicial system too," says Henry F. Schulte, dean of Syracuse University's journalism school. "Gag laws could cut into that function." After the Rockford Star in Illinois ran stories on patronage abuse in local courts...
It did not happen-not, at least, during the war. In retrospect, that is remarkable. In 1776 there were no municipal police forces and almost no prisons. If a person was the victim of a crime, he would have to find and even apprehend the offender himself. There were sheriffs...