Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michigan officials intend to appeal Judge Hotchkiss's verdict. Says Assistant Attorney General Richard Gartner: "The state now has no process to approve non-public schools." Part of Michigan's compulsory education law says that parents must send children to state-approved schools. According to Gartner, there is now a legal doubt as to whether the compulsory attendance requirement is legal...
...film studio, 20th Century-Fox Productions Chief Sherry Lansing, 38, has overseen exactly one big box-office hit: Porky's, a pickup from an independent film maker. But that commercial success was far outnumbered by such turkeys as Monsignor, Making Love, Six Pack and Author! Author! In The Verdict, starring Paul Newman, Fox finally has a critically acclaimed smasheroo, but Lansing will not be around to reap the rewards. Last week she resigned her post, which paid $300,000 a year, plus bonuses...
...unusual in this business." She was overruled by superiors, for example, in her attempts to get Chariots of Fire distributed by Fox. Instead, it was distributed by Warner Bros, and the Ladd Co., became a box-office smash and won an Oscar as best picture of 1981. With The Verdict, a film about an alcoholic Boston lawyer's malpractice case against a Catholic hospital, she guided the project from start to finish and deserves credit for its success. That accomplished, Lansing announced her departure. Said she: "What better time is there to go out than...
...president, David Beck, was found guilty of embezzlement, larceny and income tax evasion. Beck's successor, Jimmy Hoffa, got 13 years in 1964 for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Williams, 67, had thrice before escaped federal conviction. Said Chief Government Prosecutor Douglas R. Roller after the verdict, "The message of the jury is clear. Such conduct will not be tolerated...
...fifth Senate term in November and was not charged in the case, testified he had neither been offered nor had accepted a bribe. The mostly blue-collar jury of six men and six women deliberated 27 hours over four days before reaching a unanimous guilty verdict...