Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could not afford counsel, in effect asked the court to extend to state courts the federal requirement that indigent felons have a right to free counsel. Florida's attorney general, in fighting the Gideon case, wrote the attorneys general of every other state asking them to write briefs protesting Gideon's plea. Mondale not only refused, but was instrumental in having a brief drawn up urging that the Court find in Gideon's favor. He also helped to get 22 other attorneys general to sign the brief...
...court in Biloxi, civil rights lawyers requested that Pike County (of which McComb is the principal town) Sheriff R. R. Warren, McComb Police Chief George Guy, Mississippi State Public Safety Director T. B. Birdsong and three McComb patrolmen be enjoined from interfering with Negroes' civil rights. In their brief, they cited instance after instance in which rights workers were arrested and imprisoned on questionable charges. Last month, they said, local cops arrested 13 workers for operating a food-handling establishment without a permit-when all they were doing was cooking their own meals. Others told of being kicked, punched...
...their brief, they accused a formidable array of Mississippi officials and organizations of a "concerted, planned and organized conspiracy" to deny the Negro his rights. Among the defendants named: Sheriff L. C. Rainey and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price of Neshoba County, where three young civil rights workers were murdered last summer, the white Citizens Councils, the Ku Klux Klan, and Americans for the Preservation of the White Race...
...matters before it. But because of his great interest in the subject, he went to St. Peter's when the prelates began deliberating the schema on missions. Shunning the papal throne, he took a seat among the council's twelve cardinal-presidents and gave a brief speech on the schema. He pronounced it generally satisfactory and urged its approval as a basic text for further revision. The council fathers responded by rejecting the schema...
Fowles's acknowledged mentor is the 6th century B.C. Greek thinker Heraclitus, whose extant work consists only of brief fragments declaring cryptically that the universe is in flux, that life is a ceaseless struggle of opposites: fire and water, earth and spirit, love and hate. Fowles shares Heraclitus' reverence for life, his clear-eyed contemplation of the tragic, his love of paradox; and he is even more eloquent...