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Douglas acted in the case of Balley et al v. Tarr, filed last week in Los Angeles by the Southern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The order stays all inductions until the case can be tried in Federal District Court, A hearing has been set for January...
Scott J. Tepper, a Law School graduate who did much of the research on which the ACLU suit was based, called the order "extraordinary...
Harvey Burg, an ACLU lawyer who has been working steadily on registration problems, said last night that it is very difficult legally to prove discrimination against a particular class--in this case, students--if the rejections have occurred one at a time...
Students and other persons having trouble registering to vote are asked to call the ACLU, at 227-9459, or visit their office at 3 Joyce St. Even if you tried several weeks ago and were refused, or if you have been told over the phone that you can't register, they want to hear from...
...right to assemble peacefully. The President, of course, did not suspend the Constitution. Over in the Justice Department, Richard Kleindienst had hardly begun to use the emergency police powers legally available to the Administration. But radicals like Davis (who are, at heart, only the lost children of the ACLU) still fondly imagine that under crisis conditions the Constitution continues to define and limit acceptable law enforcement procedures. They believe that the Bill of Rights-at least on paper-can somehow forbid the police state. In fact, ever since Abraham Lincoln saddled the country with martial law in 1861, the courts...