Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could eliminate the jury, we would save a lot of time. You can try a case without a jury in one day that would take you a week or two weeks with a jury." In the civil law system in Europe, he said, "they never let one judge do anything. So if one judge in three is defective, which is probably about par for the American system, there are in Denmark or Holland or Sweden two other judges to offset him." - "I am no longer sure that the Fifth Amendment concept, in its present form and as presently applied...
...presumption of innocence, in criminal cases, Burger suggested, may be inconsistent with American civil procedure: "Certainly you have heard-and judges have said-that one should not convict a man out of his own mouth, The fact is that we establish responsibility and liability and we convict in all the areas of civil litigation out of the mouth of the defendant...
August, Senak and Faille, who have been suspended from the force, still face federal conspiracy charges of violating the civil rights of all eleven motel occupants, including the other two who were killed, Carl Cooper, 17, and Fred Temple, 18. Exactly how they died has never been explained...
...Gradually the anti-union tradition crumbled under strong pressure. A 9 p.m. curfew enforced by National Guardsmen cut the spring tourist trade. A Negro boycott of white businesses also did economic damage to the city. National publicity was mostly unfavorable and the strikers drew support from national labor and civil rights groups...
...allow divorce. They are Italy, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay. Of the eight, the one closest to ending its prohibition is the home of the church it self. Italy's Chamber of Deputies last week began full debate on a bill that would allow civil divorce for one of seven reasons. Parliamentary observers predict that the bill will pass, probably before the end of the year...