Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...council also pointed out that since May, 1950, it had refused the use of campuses to persons under indictment for any reason or awaiting appeal, and that "we are now of one mind in refusing to extend campus courtesies to persons convicted under the Smith...
...Manhattan newspaper, "of a gentle and lovable child whom the doctors term hopelessly feebleminded. My son is without playmates, without education of any kind. Surely there must be other parents like myself. Where are you? Let's band together and do something for our children." Summoned by this appeal, a determined band of parents in 1949 founded the New York State Association for the Help of Retarded Children to strengthen and direct their demands for better clinics and training schools for feeble-minded children. A new book growing out of the association's work, Retarded Children...
...Supreme Court upheld the right of law-enforcement authorities to use as evidence a blood sample taken from an unconscious defendant. The appeal arose from the case of a trucker who was convicted of drunken driving on testimony that a blood sample taken from him after an accident tested .17% alcohol. The court decided that the defendant's rights had not been violated so long as the blood sample was removed "under the protective eye of a physician...
...broad former Detroit Lions guard named Bill Radovich, who had charged that pro footballers had illegally conspired to bar him from the game by means of the reserve clause. The court did not rule on the details of Radovich's complaint. Instead of throwing his appeal out of court, as it did in the past baseball cases, it ordered a lower court to hold trial on his charges. This opened the door to all pro footballers who care to attack the reserve clause. More important, Justice Tom C. Clark's majority opinion went on to say that...
This approach, combining as it does generalization and detail, broadens the book's appeal, and its value, too. The chapter on the conviction of Abner Kneeland for blasphemy (one of Shaw's worst decisions), for example, will attract anyone interested in the history of civil liberties; and even the more technical opinions in the various railroad cases can be appreciated as evidence of the way in which strong judges fostered industrial expansion in the first half of the nineteenth century...