Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston University officials fired a salvo Monday in the school's battle with Coretta Scott King over ownership of 83,000 of the late Martin Luther King's personal papers, claiming that the suit lacked a legal basis...
Three students who worked on the Spectrum brought suit, alleging a violation of their First Amendment right to free expression. They had some reason to suppose that the courts might agree. In its landmark 1969 Tinker decision, the Supreme Court held that a school acted unconstitutionally when it suspended students for wearing black armbands to class in protest against the Viet Nam War. Schools may curtail those rights, the court ruled, only when the student expression substantially disrupts schoolwork or discipline, or invades the rights of others...
...what happened on Oct. 19? Basically the scheme was undone by its own success. When the stock market began to dive, all the portfolio insurers started selling futures at once. As the price of the futures collapsed, the stocks followed suit. That triggered further selling by the portfolio insurers, reinforcing the downward spiral. One of the biggest, Wells Fargo, sold $1.6 billion in futures on Black Monday alone. This was more than the market could absorb. Says Capital's Kirby: "It's like a guy driving into a parking lot with the Queen Mary and asking, 'How come these guys...
...their unsuccessful suit, the landowners claimed that the rule of eminent domain did not allow Lawrence to seize the land because of the city's plans to sell part of the land to Emerson, which is a privately owned and operated institution, Ball said...
...House should vote to extend Contra aid and the Senate should follow suit the next day, Hamilton said, "the effect would be a continuation of the war and an escalation of the war, with results we could neither predict nor control. It would also mean the...peace process would come to a halt...