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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subcommittee upheld the lying charge onlyin the case ofBenz, the students said yesterday. None of thefive other charges brought by Epps were upheld...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: One Protester Accused of Lying; Subcommittee Clears Another | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

Cambridge has already responded to three of the four cases MCAD is deliberating, Healey said. He said he is confident that the city's actions will be upheld by the commission...

Author: By James Hare, | Title: Cambridge Police Sued for Discrimination | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

...justices upheld Georgia's death penalty law by a 5-4 vote...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: High Court Upholds Capital Punishment | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...ruling upheld the death sentence given to Warren McCleskey for the 1978 murder of an Atlanta policeman...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: High Court Upholds Capital Punishment | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

Quotas. The Supreme Court last year upheld a rigid court-imposed numerical quota for the employment of blacks and Hispanics in a case where a sheet-metal union's resistance to integration had been marked by "foot-dragging egregious noncompliance." Quota plans, however, remain legally questionable in most cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Actions Are Legal? | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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