Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alive). Trial Judge Charles H. Older, who had previously prohibited lawyers and others involved from giving out information on the case, decided to punish the source of the leak. He asked Farr to identify the offender. The reporter promptly refused, claiming immunity under Section 1070 of the California Evidence Code, which protects newsmen from contempt citations for keeping sources confidential. There, apparently, the matter ended...
...informants. In December 1971, Section 1070 was amended to shield former newsmen from contempt citations, but that same month, in upholding Older's decision, a state appeals court ruled that the "vital power of the court to control its own proceedings and officers" was paramount. If the Evidence Code interfered with that judicial right, the decision added, the code would be unconstitutional...
...Code. Understanding Shepard's continuing theme is a necessity if the playgoer is to glean what the author's latest play, The Tooth of Crime, is basically about. Currently having its U.S. première at the McWhirter Theater in Princeton, N.J., it features a hero named Hoss (Frank Langella), who is a rock star. He is also a kind of robber baron of the Western freeways. He is a "marker" who scores "kills" and controls cities as fiefs. Hoss also works within a system, never deviating from "the Code." His territory is allotted to him by unseen...
...Washington Lawyers for the big tobacco companies formed a solid coalition to help the tobacco lobby. Fortas's strategy for the Superlawyers was threefold: 1) Get the issue away from the FTC and into Congress, where the industry has more influence. 2) Placate the public with a "self-regulation code." 3) Accept a weak-worded health warning on packages. In return for this "concession," refuse to give up advertising, especially...
Director Dick Richards hasn't filmed a story, only a series of along-the-trail anecdotes which illustrate the boy's macho training, boss Frank Culpepper's disciplinary authority over his unruly group (an authority of sheer professional certitude), and the slender code of honor of the four orneriest critters--gunmen Culpepper picks up to replace men shot by cattle thieves...