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...said Justice Harold H. Burton, writing the Supreme Court majority opinion (joined by Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan). Even assuming that the Taft-Hartley Act permits the NLRB to assess unions for back pay in certain cases, that, said Burton, would not prevent a plaintiff from seeking full damages in state courts. To hold otherwise, he wrote, would "grant to unions a substantial immunity" from the consequences of illegal mass picketing or coercion...
Socratic Method. In Manhattan, a judge kept silencing Assistant District Attorney Burton Roberts' attempts to interrupt Defense Attorney Horacio Quinones, but recessed the court when Burton finally broke in to say: "I'm sorry, Your Honor, but in the interest of public health and justice, I must bring to the court's attention the fact that Mr. Quinones has just drunk a glass of Epsom salts in which I was bathing my finger...
...applied for a passport and was refused on grounds, clearly supported by a congressional act, that his desertion had cost him his citizenship. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the majority opinion, with Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and Charles Evans Whittaker joining. William Brennan concurred. Felix Frankfurter, Harold Burton, Tom Clark and John Marshall Harlan dissented. The upshot: 5 to 4 in favor of citizenship for Trop...
Last week a five-man Supreme Court majority (Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Tom Clark and William J. Brennan) handed down a decision that seemed to jostle McCulloch v. Maryland in the eyes of the four dissenting members (Felix Frankfurter, John Marshall Harlan, Harold Burton, Charles E. Whittaker). At issue: a property tax levied by the city of Detroit on the Murray Corp., a subcontractor manufacturing airplane parts for the U.S. Air Force. The city assessor counted as taxable property some $2,000,000 worth of parts, materials, etc., which were chargeable...
...found in New Jersey, Stuart once got 8,000 precious feet of royal family life, including the Czar swimming in the buff. Sometimes unusual film gets scrapped. Example: a shot of Charlie Chaplin doing a little jig for visiting Winston Churchill in Hollywood in 1929. Twentieth Century Producer Burton ("Bud") Benjamin reluctantly threw it out of his hour-long show on Churchill (TIME, Oct. 28) because "it had no place in our story...