Word: affections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criminal trials a year in Bexar County (San Antonio), only half a dozen attract enough spectators to make judges even aware of their presence. Another 15 or so attract from two to eight people. As Judge Brown sees it, empty courtrooms adversely affect jurors. Concluding that no one cares, "a juror may be tempted to lay on a heavy sentence." Conversely, "he may decide that no one thinks the crime is serious and then assess a light sentence." Judge Brown is troubled: "When a man's liberty or life is at stake in my court, I like to think...
...fact that the main intent of Congress in passing the act was to deal with "what it considered a moral wrong," does not affect its validity under the commerce clause, Clark ruled. In past cases, such as those involving laws against white slavery and gambling, the court has upheld commerce-clause regulations that had more of a moral than an economic intent. Nor is the size of a specific activity relevant. Thus in 1942 the court upheld the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as applied to a farmer who sowed only 23 acres of wheat to feed his own cattle...
...Patently Preposterous." In granting Hesburgh's wish, Justice Greenberg set a precedent that may widely affect publishers and other moviemakers if it survives in higher courts. Because a man's name is a property right, Greenberg might have enjoined the film solely on the ground that Father Hesburgh, who was easily recognizable as Father Ryan, had not given his consent. But Greenberg went farther. A university's name is also a property right, he said. To be sure, others may freely exploit it, and for profit, by virtue of the public's "right to know...
Whatever the eventual decision it could affect more than TV's tireless insistence on sharing the newsman's right to cover trials. In accepting Estes' appeal, the Supreme Court involved it self in the kind of quarrel that has been stirred up whenever the press, in the exercise of its constitutionally guaranteed freedom, is accused of infringing a defendant's constitutionally guaranteed right to a fair trial...
...next contract will not affect the unskilled groundsmen, who will negotiate independently with the University. The groundsmen remain, however, part of the BGMA. They were not permitted to vote in last week's election...