Word: burg
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...Harvey Burg, an ACLU lawyer who has been working steadily on registration problems, said last night that it is very difficult legally to prove discrimination against a particular class--in this case, students--if the rejections have occurred one at a time...
...students qualify under such a stringent registration process, Burg said that the appeals process which takes place after initial rejection is even more time-consuming and labyrinthine. "If they don't get you on the first try, they'll make you keep coming back for more proof, and finally when your appeal comes up, they'll keep you around for a couple of hours," he said...
Lowenstein, along with Rep. Donald Riegle (R-Mich.) and Harvey Burg, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union in Boston, spoke to about 80 students in the Winthrop House JCR to help publicize a 'Register for Peace and New Priorities' voter registration rally scheduled for October 8, from noon to 7 p.m. in Boston's City Hall Plaza...
...meantime, Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union lawyer Harvey M. Burg had filed a class action suit in Federal District Court on the behalf of four students who had been denied the right to register. Charging violations of the First, Fifth, Fourteenth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments, the suit sought to enjoin the Cambridge Election Commission from "subjecting students and other young persons to burdens of identification and proof and proceedings more onerous than those to which adults and other persons have been subjected" when attempting to register to vote...
...which had asked the court to issue a restraining order directing the commissioners to provisionally register persons between the ages of 18 and 21 and to accept ballots from such persons on a separate roll pending court action, he did set a September 9 hearing date for the suit. Burg asked in addition that the court request from the Election Commission specific reasons, in writing, why his clients had been prohibited from registering...