Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unscrew the cap, the can exploded at the seam and her face was splattered with the product, which is more than half lye. In less than two minutes, she was blinded for life. That was nearly eight years ago. Last week, after listening to her story, a Cook County Circuit Court jury decided that the Drackett Products Co., manufacturers of Drāno, should...
...Browder v. Gayle, Johnson joined with Circuit Judge Richard T. Rives (a Truman appointee) on a three-judge panel to hand down a decisive majority vote to desegregate the buses...
...persons. In 1961, Johnson duly rapped the Macon board's "puny excuses" and enjoined its assorted subterfuges. Most important, he ordered the board to register any Negro whose qualifications equaled those of the "least qualified white." Called the "freeze doctrine," that rule for righting imbalances became the Fifth Circuit's standard formula in voting cases, and was substantially incorporated into the 1965 Voting Rights...
Much of this plan for Alabama, notably the school-choice system, was echoed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals this month in a no-nonsense decision ordering "affirmative" desegregation next fall in all grades in seven school districts in Alabama and Louisiana. The Supreme Court has refused to stay that order. District courts are now obliged to apply it throughout the Fifth Circuit's territory: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi...
...lure of money and a professional career pulled Welz away from the Crimson pinstripes into the Detroit organization. And the same bait, in bigger doses, will probably mean that Cambridge sports fans have only two more weeks to watch pitching sensation Ray Peters plying his trade in the college circuit...