Word: verdicts
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Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. yesterday sustained a March jury verdict that found the University liable for sexual discrimination suffered by a former Facilities Maintenance employee...
Garrity postponed, however, a ruling on the crucial item of this spring's jury verdict--the $75,000 in damages the jury assessed against the University. A clerk said Garrity will make a decision on appropriateness of the award some time this month...
Going after the opposition serves another purpose as well. One way to encourage peace in the family is to focus hostility on the tribe across the street, and political parties operate on the same principle. Until the convention in Atlanta confirms last week's verdict in New York, and until Dukakis, Jackson and the Southern Tories discover whether the Democratic Party is big enough to contain them all, the common enemy may help concentrate their attention wonderfully. And as the Democrats' marathon man heads toward even bigger hurdles, some of his fellow runners must help him along...
Before the verdict was read last week in the Jerusalem courtroom, the defendant complained about a sore back and was carried to an adjacent cell. Thus, after a 14-month trial, John Demjanjuk heard the news by closed-circuit television: a three-judge tribunal ruled that he was Ivan the Terrible, the sadistic guard who helped operate the gas chambers at Treblinka in which 870,000 Jews perished. Like Adolf Eichmann, the only other Nazi war criminal tried in Israel, he could be hanged...
...prosecution case is Allan A. Ryan Jr., once the chief Nazi hunter for the U.S. Justice Department; challenging the evidence is Lord Rawlinson, a former British Attorney-General. The international panel of judges -- including Shirley Hufstedler, former U.S. Secretary of Education -- will consider five specific charges against Waldheim. The verdict will not be taped until just prior to the show's telecast...