Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report which showed that of Sheriff Middleton's 163 current deputies, 14 had served time in State prisons, two in Federal prisons. 34 had been indicted locally, all for crimes of violence. The sheriff's prize deputy was his brother Slemp, ordered removed from office by a Circuit Court in 1934 as "one of the'most dangerous men in Harlan County." As soon as things had quieted down, Sheriff Middleton put Brother Slemp, back to work as a law officer...
...Charles Udell Turpin, only offspring of his four marriages, Charles H. Turpin bequeathed $1. Last week Son Turpin, Columbia and Northwestern Law School graduate, who already has obtained removal of his aunt as executrix, had suit begun in Circuit Court to set aside his father's trust, recover the Negro pupils' money for himself...
...Passed the Sumners bill which would give the U. S. Attorney General power to intervene in Federal District Courts in private law suits where the constitutionality of acts of Congress is challenged, and appeal directly to the U. S. Supreme Court, skipping the Circuit Court of Appeals. Although this method of expediting tests of U. S. laws was included in President Roosevelt's Court message, it was effectively overshadowed by his proposals for retiring members of the Federal judiciary. Last week less than one-third of the House membership cast its vote (122 to 14) for the bill...
...Democratic Presidential candidate, counsel for the AP, denied the jurisdiction of the NLRB, made no argument as to the facts of Watson's discharge. Clark ruled the AP must reinstate Watson because he had been 'discharged for Guild activities. The AP refused. NLRB then asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for an enforcing order against the AP. This was granted and the AP appealed from it to the Supreme Court, arguing that the National Labor Relations Act of July 5, 1935, also called the Wagner Act, was invalid against the AP because: 1) it violated Freedom...
Meeting in Manhattan, the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals had unanimously set aside the convictions of both Warms and Abbott, placed the blame for the ship's unsafe condition wholly upon the Ward Line and deceased Captain Willmott. Censuring the judge who sentenced Warms, the Court held that the acting captain "had maintained the best tradition of the sea by staying on his vessel until the bridge had burned under him." For Abbott's conduct the Court had no commendation, but charitably held that his "futile" behavior was due to smoke-sickness, that in any case...