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...only competent group in the country, and thus felt obligated to accept pleas from far away; however, there are now several such organizations. Secondly, students' activities have been broadened in recent years. They are now allowed to argue for a new trial in the Superior Court or a writ of error in the Supreme Judicial Court. Occasionally they are even asked to file for habeas corpus in Federal District Court in Boston. Therefore, the amount of time that HVD members are willing to spend on out-of-state cases has decreased proportionately...
...something pathetically jejune about your encouraging a policy that is doomed to fail and that will cost the Internal Revenue Service-ultimately the taxpayer-"up to $400 per case." Perhaps not every word that comes from the months of babes is to be thought worthy of inclusion in Holy Writ...
...like, Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas asked the city council for an extra $5,230,817. The money, argued the court's judges, was essential to the orderly administration of justice. Turned down, the judges took unusual action: the court went to court, seeking a writ ordering the city...
Mandatory membership, Buckley maintained, was "a modern writ of indenture" and violated his right of free speech, not to mention two other constitutional guarantees. Buckley, asked by a reporter about the "showmanship" involved in his weekly political talk show, replied, "I'm not nearly as histrionic as Franklin Delano Roosevelt was." He also distinguished his type of performance from Bob Hope's. That distinction was painfully manifest to viewers of Buckley's recent guest gig on Laugh-In, in which he matched limp quips with Rowan and Martin...
Mother Nature dumped 27.9 inches of snow on Cambridge this month, more snow than the city has seen in December since 1947, and Cambridge politicians are still trying to get it cleaned up. On Christmas Eve City Manager John Corcoran obtained a writ from Superior Court and ordered Public Works employees to work overtime on snow removal...