Word: writs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largest operations since World War II. A force of 15,000 soldiers and marine commandos-backed by 600 armored cars bristling with artillery pieces and machine guns-last week invaded the Irish Republican Army's barricaded sanctuaries in Northern Ireland and reestablished the Queen's Writ throughout the province...
...October 22, his lawyer, David Nelson, appeared in Equity Session of Suffolk Superior Court, and obtained a restraining order postponing the execution of the extradition order to December 17. In the mean time, efforts are being made in Missouri to overturn his original conviction. Nelson has also filed a writ of habeas corpus in an attempt to kill the extradition proceedings...
...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...