Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found myself in a large, empty lobby. The carpet was the deep, thick kind that absorbs most noise, the kind that you sink into as you walk across it. On the far side of the lobby sat a short, squat old man wearing a freshly pressed three-piece suit and tightly gripping a cane. As I walked in, he looked up at me eagerly...
...think that our current plan will certainly be extended." Exulted N.A.A.C.P. Lawyer Jones: "It's a clear victory and one we will be able to use with great effectiveness in the other battles coming up." The first battleground will be Chicago, where the N.A.A.C.P. intends to file a suit within a few months...
Should television be liable for inspiring such violent crime? Last week the Supreme Court cleared the way for a jury to try an $11 million negligence suit filed by the victim, Olivia Niemi, and her mother, Valeria Pope Niemi, against NBC and the Chronicle Publishing Co., owners of KRON-TV. Niemi's lawyer, Marvin Lewis, charges that by depicting a graphic rape scene in a movie aired at 8 p.m., when many children are watching, the network and the station are responsible for her daughter's rape...
...contributes to violence, including a study commissioned by ABC in which 22 of 100 juvenile offenders confessed to having borrowed criminal techniques from television. But some psychologists argue that violent programs provide a vicarious release for aggression. The networks and some First Amendment scholars fear that Niemi's suit, if successful, will drastically undermine constitutional free speech guarantees. "I would regard it a very dangerous principle that would hold a broadcaster or a publisher liable for the imitation of what it showed or published in a creative context," commented Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt Jr. "It would...
...contends that the First Amendment should be an absolute bar to the Niemi suit. But the California Court of Appeal disagreed, ruling that Niemi was entitled to a jury trial. Last week the high court refused to review the decision. In doing so, the court was making no judgment on the merits; apparently it simply wanted to hold off until the case runs its course in the California courts. But whether in this case or another, the Justices someday will have to decide just how much the First Amendment protects publishers and broadcasters when life contagiously imitates...