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Beetlemania By Al Kamen Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 5, 1997 ; Page A19 Section: A Section 932 words; 1 of 31 Article ID: 9703050047 In the '50s, parents blamed all manner of social ills on Elvis Presley and his gyrating hips. Click for complete article EXAMS TO END ALLEGATIONS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT BIAS SPAWN MORE By Wendy Melillo Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 20, 1995 ; Page J02 Section: WEEKLY - DISTRICT 836 words; 2 of 31 Article ID: 9507200001 The D.C. fire department's 1990 and 1991 promotional exams were supposed to end years of wrangling over alleged discrimination against black firefighters in hiring and promotion practices. Instead, the exams spawned more controversy and more lawsuits but little satisfaction in the department. Click for complete article DIVISION OF FIREFIGHTER FUNDS ASSAILED By Debbi Wilgoren Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 15, 1993 ; Page J02 Section: WEEKLY - DISTRICT 652 words; 3 of 31 Article ID: 9307150005 The money sat in an account at the Industrial Bank of Washington for nearly three years: $3.5 million earmarked for African American firefighters who said the D.C. Fire Department discriminated against them from 1960 to 1984. Click for complete article NAFTA AND THE ENVIRONMENT Sunday, July 11, 1993 ; Page C06 Section: OP/ED 546 words; 4 of 31 Article ID: 9307110042 The article "NAFTA Pact Jeopardized by Court" {news story, July 1} accurately describes the problems that U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey's questionable ruling on violation of the National Environment Policy Act has crea-ted for the pact. Click for complete article BAD DECISION ON NAFTA Thursday, July 1, 1993 ; Page A22 Section: EDITORIAL 471 words; 5 of 31 Article ID: 9307010037 JUDGE RICHEY'S peculiar decision on NAFTA -- the North American Free Trade Agreement -- is a political triumph for the protectionist campaign to kill it. But whether the decision will turn out to be sound law is a different matter. Under the Constitution as previously understood, it's hard to see how a judge can order a president not to send legislation to Congress. Click for complete article THE JUDGE AND THE ARCHIVES Friday, April 16, 1993 ; Page A24 Section: EDITORIAL 520 words; 6 of 31 Article ID: 9304160101 WHEN THE BUSH administration left office, the White House staff was under court order to turn over all White House computer records, or backup computer tapes preserving them in "identical form," to the office of U.S. Archivist Donald Wilson. But the archivist has since left that post to become executive director of the George Bush Presidential Studies Center at Texas A&M University -- a position he was in negotiation for with his potential employers when he signed a much-criticized agreement giving B Click for complete article FOOT-DRAGGING Wednesday, March 31, 1993 ; Page A18 Section: OP/ED 257 words; 7 of 31 Article ID: 9303310015 On March 6, Colman McCarthy wrote an op-ed column on Judge Charles R. Richey's ruling on behalf of caged laboratory dogs. That ruling has a long congressional history. Click for complete article LEASHING ANIMAL RESEARCH By Colman McCarthy Saturday, March 6, 1993 ; Page A21 Section: OP/ED 700 words; 8 of 31 Article ID: 9303060052 While biding their tormented time in laboratory captivity and awaiting biomedical experiments by their cagers, some primates and dogs are likely to be suffering less in coming years. A ruling by Judge Charles R. Richey in federal district court in Washington on Feb. 25 found that officials in the Department of Agriculture were ignoring the Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals Act of 1985. The law, an amendment to the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, requires "the humane handling, care, treatment and tran Click for complete article THAT ARCHIVES DEAL Thursday, February 18, 1993 ; Page A18 Section: EDITORIAL 465 words; 9 of 31 Article ID: 9302180136 PRIVATE ARCHIVISTS and key congressional Democrats are outraged by the alleged actions of U.S. archivist Donald Wilson in behalf of George Bush. The critics contend that Mr. Bush and Mr. Wilson, with their agreement giving the former president "exclusive legal control" over a huge volume of sensitive computer files chronicling the Bush presidency, circumvented the Federal Records Act and the Presidential Records Act. These are the laws the U.S. archivist is charged with enforcing. That alone justifies th Click for complete article WHAT'S IN THOSE FILES? Tuesday, January 19, 1993 ; Page A20 Section: EDITORIAL 373 words; 10 of 31 Article ID: 9301190076 THE DEPARTING White House staff, which must have better things to do, spent Friday in one last skirmish with the courts over whether it may erase its computer records. A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit had told it firmly no -- not unless the material is copied in "identical form" on computer backup tapes. The White House had made an emergency appeal in the wake of last week's order by federal Judge Charles Richey, which prohibited what Republicans had said would be a large- Click for complete article SAVING ELECTRONIC HISTORY Monday, January 11, 1993 ; Page A16 Section: EDITORIAL 487 words; 11 of 31 Article ID: 9301110002 WHEN OFFICIALS in the White House chatter back and forth on their electronic mail networks, is it part of the historicalrecord? A federal judge now confirms that it is -- and so are a mass of other, more substantive records that just happen to have been produced on computer terminals instead of on paper. It's an important decision for historians and for those who seek to hold government accountable -- the first that makes clear the relevance to computers of the post-Watergate laws on preserving president Click for complete article A NEW DISPUTE ON THE GAG RULE Monday, June 1, 1992 ; Page A18 Section: EDITORIAL 490 words; 12 of 31 Article ID: 9206010007 SIX MONTHS ago it would have been reasonable to assume that the long, drawn-out fight over the gag rule was over. The dispute about regulations promulgated in 1988 that forbade abortion counseling in federally funded family planning clinics had been through the courts and Congress. The Supreme Court ruled last year that the regulations were a constitutional exercise of executive branch power. Congress responded by overturning the regulations by statute, but the president vetoed that bill and the House fe Click for complete article HIGH TIME FOR BLACKS IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS Monday, April 20, 1992 ; Page A18 Section: OP/ED 300 words; 13 of 31 Article ID: 9204200009 It was most gratifying to read about the outcome of Lugenia Gordon's lawsuit {"Shaking and Shaping Up the GOP," editorial, April 12} . Click for complete article SHAKING AND SHAPING UP THE GOP Sunday, April 12, 1992 ; Page C06 Section: EDITORIAL 512 words; 14 of 31 Article ID: 9204120016 THREE YEARS ago, a 67-year-old black grandmother from New York came to Washington, leaned on her cane and told the bigwigs in her Republican Party, "If you suckers don't wake up, I'm going to haul your butts into federal court." They didn't, she did, and on Wednesday she won. "I am so happy. Thank God for Judge Richey," Lugenia Gordon told The Post. "You don't know how long I've been fighting these people." What in the world did the Republican National Committee do to get Mrs. Gordon so mad? And why did Click for complete article BLACK REPUBLICANS WIN ORDER FOR ANTI-BIAS RULES By Michael York Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 8, 1992 ; Page A14 Section: A SECTION 578 words; 15 of 31 Article ID: 9204080094 A federal judge ordered the Federal Election Commission yesterday to adopt anti-discrimination rules that would give black Republicans a better chance of being selected as delegates to the party's national convention. Click for complete article CAFRITZ CASE WORRIES DEVELOPERS, BANKERS FDIC TESTS ITS NEW POWERS TO SEIZE ASSETS AND RECOVER DEBTS By David S. Hilzenrath Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 2, 1991 ; Page B10 Section: FINANCIAL 811 words; 16 of 31 Article ID: 9105020077 A deep new anxiety has gripped bankers and developers since a federal judge last week ordered Washington real estate investor Conrad Cafritz to turn over $18 million of assets to a court-appointed trustee. Click for complete article EDMOND CONVICTED ON ALL COUNTS IN DRUG CONSPIRACY CASE LIFE IN PRISON MANDATED 10 OTHERS ALSO GUILTY By Elsa Walsh Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 7, 1989 ; Page A01 Section: A SECTION 1756 words; 17 of 31 Article ID: 8912070135 Rayful Edmond III, whose flashy lifestyle made him famous on the District's streets, was convicted yesterday of leading what authorities said was the city's largest cocaine ring, a verdict that mandates life in prison without parole. Click for complete article AT THE EDMOND TRIAL Saturday, October 7, 1989 ; Page A22 Section: EDITORIAL 435 words; 18 of 31 Article ID: 8910070135 RAYFUL Edmond, who is on trial here with 10 others in a major drug case, gives the appearance of being without a care in the world. Smiling continuously, laughing occasionally, he even chews pink bubble gum and blows impressive bubbles during recess periods. It's an odd show on the part of a man who is accused of running the city's largest cocaine ring, linked by police to about 30 murders. But if Mr. Edmond appears to be taking his predicament casually, the court and law enforcement authorities are taki Click for complete article THE JUDICIAL INNOVATOR JUDGE RICHEY UNAFRAID TO GO OUT ON LIMB By Tracy Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 4, 1989 ; Page D01 Section: METRO 953 words; 19 of 31 Article ID: 8910040013 On New Year's Eve in 1978, as the printers union of the Washington Star wrangled with publishers over a new contract, an emergency hearing on the negotiations convened before U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey. But a snag arose: All court stenographers were gone for the holiday. Click for complete article DRUG MARKET SECURITY DETAILED IN EDMOND TRIAL TRIP WIRES, SHOUTS HELPED DEALERS ELUDE POLICE, OFFICER TESTIFIES By Elsa Walsh Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 21, 1989 ; Page D01 Section: METRO 653 words; 20 of 31 Article ID: 8909210205 Trip wires were strung and poles, couches and trees routinely were piled in an alley near the cocaine market operated by alleged drug gang leader Rayful Edmond III to help dealers elude arrest while others shouted warnings of police presence, a federal court jury was told yesterday in the first day of testimony in Edmond's drug trial. Click for complete article PRIVATE CITIZENS CAN SUE PRESIDENT ON COMPUTER TAPES JUDGE RULES ON LAWSUITS CHALLENGING ERASURES By Tracy Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 16, 1989 ; Page A02 Section: A SECTION 656 words; 21 of 31 Article ID: 8909160083 A federal judge here yesterday ruled that private citizens can take the president to court to challenge White House decisions to erase computer tapes such as those discovered by investigators in the Iran-contra scandal. Click for complete article GOOD NIGHT, CURFEW Thursday, May 25, 1989 ; Page A25 Section: EDITORIAL 388 words; 22 of 31 Article ID: 8905250247 U.S. District Judge Charles Richey has done a favor for the posturing D.C. Council and the complaisant mayor for the second time this year. In February the council decided that the way to combat the drug problem among juveniles was to clear the juveniles off the streets. It would have been better, of course, to clear them out of town entirely; then the council could have saved money on the school budget too. But these are moderates. The emergency curfew the council passed said no person under 18 could be Click for complete article EDMOND, CODEFENDANTS ENTER NOT GUILTY PLEAS 23 ARRAIGNED ON DRUG, CONSPIRACY CHARGES By Tracy Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 25, 1989 ; Page B02 Section: METRO 637 words; 23 of 31 Article ID: 8905250138 Accused drug trafficker Rayful Edmond III and 22 alleged members of his group, crammed behind a bulletproof shield in federal court here yesterday, pleaded not guilty to charges that they participated in one of the District's biggest cocaine distribution networks. Click for complete article U.S. JUDGE DECLARES D.C. CURFEW LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL By Tracy Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 25, 1989 ; Page B01 Section: METRO 696 words; 24 of 31 Article ID: 8905250137 A federal judge permanently barred District officials yesterday from enforcing a controversial curfew for juveniles, ruling that the proposed law would make "thousands of this city's innocent juveniles prisoners at night in their homes." Click for complete article LIGHTS OUT FOR THE CURFEW Wednesday, March 22, 1989 ; Page A18 Section: EDITORIAL 442 words; 25 of 31 Article ID: 8903220086 DISTRICT COUNCILMAN Frank Smith says he will craft yet another version of an emergency curfew law for the city's juveniles. We have a better idea: Mr. Smith and the rest of the council should simply drop this effort. In federal court on Monday, Judge Charles R. Richey predictably blocked enforcement of the law with a 10-day restraining order, saying that the idea of a curfew "gives me the chills." The American Civil Liberties Union had filed suit to derail the curfew. Judge Richey said that the law raise Click for complete article