Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard-core supporters continued to defend him. Senator Strom Thurmond, Republican of South Carolina, said that he saw nothing in the transcripts that justified impeachment. Virginia G.O.P. Senator William Scott laconically commented on the President's role in the transcripts: "Nobody's perfect." Senator Wallace Bennett, Republican of Utah, criticized presidential critics who called for resignation as being willing to "destroy the system...
Last week's Senate bill, co-sponsored by Democrats Frank Moss of Utah and Warren Magnuson of Washington, requires states to meet specific no-fault standards within four years or else adopt an even more stringent federal plan. To meet the minimum requirements, insurance companies must pay all medical and rehabilitation expenses of their injured customers, compensate victims for lost wages up to a maximum that ranges from $17,000 to $35,000 a year (depending on the state's income levels), and pay funeral expenses for a driver killed in a crash. The companies must also foot...
Since the 1972 report, several states (Utah, Nebraska, Connecticut) have passed some restriction on smoking in public and one state (Arizona) has completely banned smoking in theaters, concert halls, art galleries, museums, libraries and buses. These state laws, along with similar ones passed by country and city governments, are necessary public health measures. Unfortunately, Massachusetts has enacted no legislation protecting the rights of non-smokers, despite the efforts of freshman Rep. Lois Pines (D-Newton...
Eventually, all but seven states decided to settle on behalf of their citizens for a total of $85 million. Now, in Judge Lord's court, California, Hawaii, Kansas, Oregon, Utah and Washington have agreed to take $35 million. (North Carolina has been litigating on its own.) The farm and veterinarian groups and other plaintiffs are getting the rest of the $175 million...
...still a valid basis for treating persons differently under the law? Yes, said a unanimous Utah Supreme Court. "We realize that as a court made up of men there is a possibility of masculine bias," conceded Justice J. Allan Crockett for the five-member panel. But noting such "widely accepted" ideas as earlier female maturity and male breadwinning responsibility, the court upheld a state law under which males are considered minors until age 21 and females only until 18. In Georgia, however, Trial Judge Charles A. Wofford struck down the state's laws on alimony because the requirement...