Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeal to the Supreme Court, the Jencks defense asked a new trial in which, specifically, Judge Thomason would be required to act as screener. It was this specific appeal that the Government argued against. In the legal point and counterpoint, the idea never came up of turning the FBI files over to the defense directly. But this was precisely the idea that the Supreme Court turned into a rule of law. Wrote Justice Brennan, with Chief Justice Warren, Justices Black, Douglas and Frankfurter concurring: "Because only the defense is adequately equipped to determine the effective use [of reports...
...Seen. Last week, in a decision that stunned lawyers on both sides with its bold and unexpected reaches, a four-man Supreme Court majority (Warren, Brennan, Black and Douglas)† overruled Judge LaBuy. Completely bypassing the Government's main charges-that Du Pont had violated the 1890 Sherman Act by fencing off the G.M. market from Du Font's competitors-the court based its decision on Section 7 of the 1914 Clayton Act, to which Government lawyers had devoted only six pages of their 100-page brief and only perfunctory oral argument. Section 7 bars a corporation from...
...previous cases Section 7 had been applied soon after the acquisition, and many a lawyer agreed with Burton that by applying it 30 years after the fact, the court had opened up a new field of antitrust prosecutions (see BUSINESS). "Over 40 years after the enactment of the Clayton Act," wrote Burton, "it now becomes apparent for the first time that Section 7 has been a sleeping giant all along. Every corporation which has acquired a stock interest [in a customer or supplier since 1914] is exposed, retroactively, to the bite of the newly discovered teeth...
...Under the 1903 Expediting Act, District Court judgments in civil antitrust suits can be appealed only to the Supreme Court, not to a Circuit Court of Appeals. †Clark disqualified himself because he was Attorney General when the Justice Department brought the suit in 1949. Harlan had represented Du Pont as a lawyer. Whittaker had not yet been appointed when the case was argued before the court. *In 1950, after the Government brought suit against Du Pont, Congress amended Section 7 to make it clearly applicable to vertical cases...
Throughout their act, they spoof their own material, run in gag numbers kidding singing commercials and California's ad-mad mortuaries: "At Goldheim's you can lie on your crisp, moisture-free bier and know that your bier is Goldheim's, the dry bier...