Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Choice assignment for a lawyer, to work for millionaires in search of grubbing further millions from dead old ladies. Almost as good as working for a percentage of a multibillion takeover bid or antitrust suit. Lawyers come out of the woodwork when vast sums of unused capital are up for grabs...
...Justice Department. The move gives Walsh standing within the Executive Branch and thus, said Meese, provides an "insurance policy" that will allow Walsh's investigation to continue even if the North court challenge is successful. But North's attorneys tried to trump this play by filing a new suit challenging Meese's authority to give Walsh the Justice Department post...
...37th feature film, in a makeshift studio 35 miles north of Los Angeles and a world away from Hollywood, the 80-year-old director sits in a chair, watching the action on a closed-circuit television monitor and rumbling orders into a microphone. The jauntiness of his warm-up suit is belied by the clear plastic tube that runs from his nose, behind his ears, down his chest and along his leg to an oxygen tank, a last-ditch defense against the emphysema that has plagued him for decades...
...case grew indirectly out of a 1982 suit in which Hand upheld two Alabama laws promoting prayers in public schools. When his ruling was reversed on appeal, an undaunted Hand accommodatingly allowed a group of parents and teachers who had intervened as defendants in the prayer dispute to proceed as plaintiffs in the textbook suit, advancing claims they had first raised in the earlier case. His ruling last week prompted hosannas from the religious right. "Humanism will no longer be guaranteed a preferred position in American education," exulted Robert Skolrood, executive director of the National Legal Foundation, a group established...
...parties involved may file an exception outlining their objections to Miller's recommendation with Pamela Poff, director of the New Jersey Division for Civil Rights. Frank originally filed her suit with the division, and it is that office that has jurisdiction over the final ruling...