Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MEASURE of the interest generated by Bill Baird's fight against Massachusetts birth control laws might be the scarcity of copies of the brief submitted in his defense...
...fuss, the brief deals only peripherally with the issues for which Baird has been fighting. A lawyer has to find constitutional excuses for what are more basically humanitarian questions...
...will convince the court. But the argument does give Balliro a chance to list ways in which the laws impose frightening penalties upon those who are prevented from learning about or from taking advantage of birth control devices. The arguments take up only five pages of an 80-page brief, but a sample shows that they give the reasons behind most of the other legal reasoning...
...ARGUMENT Balliro predicted as likely to convince the court comes in another section of his brief. Since Baird exhibited contraceptives during a peaceful meeting in which he asked his audience to write their legislators to change the laws, Balliro claims that exhibiting the devices was an extension of Baird's rights under the First Amendment...
First, Harvard would like to end Navy's ten-game winning streak in the brief series between the two schools. Second, Harrison wants to see better organization on the floor and, perhaps most important of all, hopes to cut down the number of fouls on defense...