Word: benches
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...case was argued, having read the briefs, I would write a memorandum myself in which I summarized how I thought the case should be decided and how the opinion should be written. I would give that to a law clerk who would then give me what we call a bench memo. If the case was assigned to me to write, that law clerk in all probability would submit in triple-space form a draft of an opinion that reflected the views I had already set forth. Before a draft opinion was circulated to the other Justices, all four...
...went down the path. Father was sitting on the bench, watching the sun go down. His dog Arbat was lying beside him. Father looked tired, his face seemed grayer and older. He asked, "Do you know already? Did Mama tell you?" I nodded. "Scoundrels! I told them what I think of them. Perhaps I went too far, but it serves them right. They thought I would crawl on my belly in front of them...
...vote, the high bench upheld the constitutionality of Congress's 1984 Equal Access Act. The measure says that no public secondary school receiving federal funds may bar student clubs on the basis of their "religious, political ((or)) philosophical" views, if the school permits one or more "noncurriculum" groups to meet after school hours...
...tsubame (swallow) did not make this spring. Twelve of the 70 works in the Sotheby's sale failed to reach their reserves and went unsold. On the night of the Van Gogh sale at Christie's, a Manet, The Bench, made only $16.5 million -- not chickenfeed, but still a disappointment considering Christie's presale estimate of $20 million to $25 million. In addition, an exceptional 1925 Mondrian made $8.8 million; Christie's estimate had been $12 million to $16 million...
...more sweeping opinions handed down by the court during a busy week. Three of the other decisions, concerning possession of child pornography, the use of drugs in religious ceremonies, and warrantless arrests, involved the court's evolving body of privacy law. In addition, the high bench issued a major decision on labor relations. The rulings...