Word: denials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, who led a sit-in in 1987 to protest the denial of tenure to Critical Legal Studies adherent Clare Dalton, said the nationwide protest promised to be be "very effective...
Papandreou's staunch denial of wrongdoing did not prevent rival politicians from calling for his resignation. "He is becoming a laughingstock with his repeated theories about plots," said Constantine Mitsotakis, head of the conservative New Democracy Party. Two members of the Prime Minister's own PASOK party, both former ministers, also called on Papandreou to step aside -- so far the only signs of internal revolt...
Such realities present us with a dilemma. To deny the legitimacy of North's requests for information would be equivalent to denying him his fourth amendment rights. Such a denial would set a bad precedent that might endanger individual rights in future cases. To express support for our basic rights, we * swallow our indignation at North's actions and support his calls for a fair trial...
...state's failure to protect an individual against private violence," declared Chief Justice William Rehnquist, was not a denial of the victim's constitutional rights. "While the state may have been aware of the dangers that Joshua faced in the free world, it played no part in their creation, nor did it do anything to render him any more vulnerable to them." The majority's ruling provoked an emotional dissent from Justice Harry Blackmun. "Poor Joshua! Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, cowardly and intemperate father, and abandoned by ((county officials)) who placed him in a dangerous predicament...
...diversity in the faculty. During his term as chair of the Subcommittee on Appointing Women, Clark was responsible for appointing only one woman to the faculty. When Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, one of the School's two tenured Black professors, held a sit-in to protest the denial of tenure to Dalton, Clark said "This is a university--not some lunch counter in the South...