Word: sues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There her complaint vanished into the bureaucratic maze. So she took her case to federal court. But a lower court and a court of appeals both told her that she had no right to sue. Only HEW, they ruled, could enforce the section of the civil rights laws, Title IX, that bans sex discrimination against students and applicants to educational institutions receiving federal funds. Since HEW is hopelessly backlogged with discrimination complaints and reluctant to use its only sanction-stripping an institution of federal funds-Cannon was back at Square...
...women's track and field team yesterday named juniors Sue Harper and Kat Taylor captains for the 1979-80 season...
...approved the so-called Illinois Brick Bill by a 9-to-8 vote, led by Chairman Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Prospects for passage in the full Senate and House are doubtful, but, if enacted, the bill would overturn a 1977 Supreme Court decision. Not only could middlemen and retailers sue and collect treble damages from a company for antitrust violations, but so too could individual consumers who join together in class actions. Businessmen fear that the bill would engulf many companies in harassment suits. Often, such suits amount to little more than blackmail: plaintiffs know that companies would rather agree...
...Sue Hewitt ended her remarkable high jumping stint by finally clearing 5 ft., 3 in., bettering her University record by an inch...
...Green gave the Crimson a rough time, but attack wing Sue St. Louis had little trouble slipping the Dartmough zone for six tallies. St. Louis tossed in an amazing shot from 20 yards out that caught the goalie sleeping and squeezed into the right-hand corner of the cage...