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Should newspaper photographers be allowed to take pictures in courtrooms? Eighteen years ago the American Bar Association answered with a firm no. adopted Canon 35, banning cameras from courts. Fourteen states followed suit by officially making Canon 35 a part of their law; it was approved by the bar associations of close to a dozen other states. Frequent court decisions have upheld a judge's right to bar photographers from his court. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused even to hear an appeal from the Cleveland Press, whose photographers had been held in contempt for taking courtroom pictures...
Photographers, said Brownell, should be given "their day in court." Although trial judges have a right to bar photographers. Brownell urged that the decision be left up to individual judges rather than bar associations or state laws. One big reason to ease the ban, said Brownell, is that modern photographic methods eliminate much of the noise and disturbance that once upset court routine. To help solve the problem, Brownell announced he was recommending to the American Bar Association that it re-examine Canon 35, with a view toward admitting more photographers to court proceedings. Said the Attorney General: "Courts...
Both of the military academics were next to throttle debaters, although no one wanted to take the responsibility for the ban. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles publicly denied he had any part in the censorship, as did Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson...
Rear Admiral Boone rejoined by saying he would lift the ban with a "cheerful naval aye, aye" if directed by a higher authority. But no such authority exerted itself, and the ban remained. West Point informed the public that it would allow no debate on "a controversial subject on which . . . national policy has already been established." It then went ahead to argue the advisability of agricultural subsidies, which the government has approved for over a hundred years. And the Naval Academy maintained that anyone arguing for recognition of Peking was upholding "the Communist Philosophy and party line" at the same...
...legislative investigative committee. In his discussion of Congressional investigations, Bath has commented, "the purpose of an inquiry seems the significant key to its validity. Questioning aimed at inhibiting expression or harassing non-conformity of conducting a legislative trial entails purposes that are unconstitutional. It is certainly possible to ban such questioning without impairing the ability of congressional committees to discharge their vitally important part of the legislative process." Here again, it seems impossible disentangle substantial moral questions from the purely legal aspects of Furry's refusal to testify concerning others before the McCarthy committee...