Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kodak does less than four percent of its business in defense-related work and consequently did not warrant such a study under the ACSR's fourth criteria, Blumenfeld said...
...sentenced to 30 years in prison, but has been free for the past two years on $1 million bail pending his appeal. The court threw out the conviction on a technicality: police did not have a proper search warrant when they examined a syringe that contained traces of insulin-evidence that helped convict Von Bülow-in a small black bag found in his closet. The case can be retried using legally obtained evidence, but Von Bülow's attorney, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, said he would seek to have the charges dismissed on the ground...
Dershowitz's appeal resulted in the reversal of von Bulow's conviction on the grounds that prosecutors examined crucial evidence without a warrant, and that during the 1982 that the presiding judge illegally barred the defense from certain information collected by the prosecution...
...drawn? Is it "unreasonable" when 15 to 25 armed agents of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service descend on a factory without warning, seal off the exits and systematically interrogate employees? Or when police ignore fences and no-trespassing signs to search private land for marijuana plants without a warrant? In recent years the Supreme Court has appeared to push the boundaries in the direction of the Government, and last week, in cases involving factory searches and open fields, it did so again...
Even the pro-government Times of India criticized Mrs. Gandhi for proceeding with a trip to Arab capitals beginning this week. "If her government has recognized the situation to be critical enough to warrant such drastic measures," it asked in an editorial, "can she afford to be away from the country for even a day? The trip will appear to be an exercise in escapism." Mrs. Gandhi, caught between pressures to do more and less, must wonder if escape lies anywhere...