Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Counsel Carter was quick to point out that Steel's provocative article contained criticisms of the court that he and other staff members have often made in print. Claiming that the association has denied its own attorney the same due process that it tries to assure for Negroes, Carter sent an ultimatum to the board demanding that Steel be reinstated before noon on Oct. 21. N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins, who was away on a vacation cruise during the board vote, told Carter that his action was "inappropriate," but other civil libertarians took a different view. They admitted...
...generations the N.A.A.C.P. has devoted much of its time to representing the Negro in courts throughout the nation. Last week the organization was more than a little embarrassed at having to defend itself against charges pressed by its own chief lawyer. The N.A.A.C.P. board of directors, said General Counsel Robert Carter, acted in a manner that was "arbitrary, demeaning and intolerable" when it fired Lewis Steel, 31, one of his ablest staff attorneys...
...article. "Now they'll be able to say that the N.A.A.C.P. is jumping on the court." Bishop Stephen Spottswood, N.A.A.C.P. board chairman, denounced "historical inaccuracies" in the piece without specifying his objections, and one day after the article appeared, the board discharged Steel without summoning either him or Counsel Carter for an explanation...
There seems almost no limit to the situations that could fall under 10b-5. Speaking to security analysts in Atlanta last week, Philip A. Loomis Jr., the commission's general counsel, warned that if a company officer "by mistake or stupidity" leaves an analyst with a choice bit of inside information, the analyst ought to make it public as soon as possible. Companies, too, might face SEC investigation and possible lawsuits if their officers remain silent about important corporate developments...
...would have been a more progessive member of the Supreme Court than Mr. Justice Fortas. Alvin J. Bronstein Fellow, Institute of Politics Formerly, Chief Staff Counsel, Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee