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In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms. ↗


— Jane Harman


#associates #firms #first #fraction #graduated

I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State. ↗


— Katherine Harris


#bush #department #did #election #follow

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. ↗


— Huston Smith


#christian #compassion #death #discipline #earth

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges. ↗


— Dennis Hastert


#because #case #court #day #favorable

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation. ↗


— John Hawkins


#discrimination #employment #free #like #ms

One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parameters of the syndrome, nor did the court find on the issue. Fiona Reay, a 33 year old care assistant, accused her father of systematic sexual abuse during her childhood. The facts of her childhood were not in dispute: she had run away from home on a number of occasions and there was evidence that she had never been enrolled in secondary school. Her father said it was because she was ‘young and stupid’. He had physically assaulted Fiona on a number of occasions, one of which occurred when she was sixteen. The police had been called to the house by her boyfriend; after he had dropped her home, he heard her screaming as her father beat her with a dog chain. As before there was no evidence of repression of memory in this case. Fiona Reay had been telling the same story to different health professionals for years. Her medical records document her consistent reference to family problems from the age of 14. She finally made a clear statement in 1982 when she asked a gynaecologist if her need for a hysterectomy could be related to the fact that she had been sexually abused by her father. Five years later she was admitted to psychiatric hospital stating that one of the precipitant factors causing her breakdown had been an unexpected visit from her father. She found him stroking her daughter. There had been no therapy, no regression and no hypnosis prior to the allegations being made public. The jury took 27 minutes to find Fiona Reay’s father not guilty of rape and indecent assault. As before, the court did not hear evidence from expert witnesses stating that Fiona was suffering from false memory syndrome. The only suggestion of this was by the defence counsel, Toby Hed­worth. In his closing remarks he referred to the ‘worrying phenomenon of people coming to believe in phantom memories’. The next case which was claimed as a triumph for false memory was heard in March 1995. A father was aquitted of raping his daughter. The claims of the BFMS followed the familiar pattern of not fitting within the parameters of false memory at all. The daughter made the allegations to staff members whom she had befriended during her stay in psychiatric hospital. As before there was no evidence of memory repression or recovery during therapy and again the case failed due to lack of corrobo­rating evidence. Yet the society picked up on the defence solicitor’s statements that the daughter was a prone to ‘fantasise’ about sexual matters and had been sexually promiscuous with other patients in the hospital. ~ Trouble and Strife, Issues 37-43 ↗


— Trouble and Strife


#british-false-memory #child-rape #childhood-abuse #false-memory #false-memory-syndrome-foundation

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again. ↗


— Ruth Ann Minner


#come #delaware #idea #increasing #may

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. ↗


— Robert A. Heinlein


#almost #any #creed #cult #into

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017. ↗


— Francois Hollande


#balanced budget #budget #budget deficit #constitution #deficit

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account. ↗


— Douglas Hofstadter


#always #even #expect #into #law






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