Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington droned on, furnishing a strange far-off accompaniment, Negroes Townes and McDaniels were led handcuffed from the courtroom. If their minds registered anything as the sheriff and two deputies escorted them down the back stairs to return them to jail, it was relief. The Court had assigned counsel to defend them, set a date for trial by jury. Everything was according to law. But when they stepped out of a side door of the courthouse, they found themselves face to face with what so often handles cases like theirs in the South. An angry mob surged forward, took them...
Said Oursler's attorney, Arthur Garfield Hays, famed counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union: "The case is closed. We've done what we started to do-stop Mrs. Macfadden talking against Oursler...
...Case. The Guild appealed to the National Labor Relations Board which summoned the AP to a hearing with Dean Charles E. Clark of the Yale Law School as Trial Examiner. John W. Davis, 1924 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...
...notable. Father Aëlred described the nature of the monastery, Brother Hugh described Devro's accident. But most damaging to the plaintiff's case were Mrs. Devro's admissions as to her husband's behavior, drawn from her by the Cistercians' potent counsel, U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue Joseph V. Broderick. Before long Justice Herbert L. Carpenter called attorneys for both sides before him, suggested that plaintiff's case was not impressing him. By general agreement he discontinued the suit, charging costs to the plaintiff. Back to the silence of their ridge...
Widow Green's lawyers, headed by one-time U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, objected to the probate on general grounds that the 1908 document was not a last will & testament. Sister Hetty's counsel moved to dismiss the objections, alleging Mrs. Green was no interested party in the probate because of a prenuptial agreement in which she waived dower rights for $1,500 per month for life...