Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen solemn U.S. citizens filed into the jury box in a big walnut-paneled and marble courtroom in Manhattan last week, rose in their three-tiered box as Federal Judge Harold Medina made his entrance. The black-robed Court seated himself in his high-backed chair, looked out over the top of his desk and nodded to U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey. The trial of eleven Communist leaders, charged with conniving as Communists to overthrow the Government by violence, had finally got down to business...
...antitrust laws. His lawyers claimed that he had been denied his livelihood by the reserve clause in his contract with the Giants; the injustice in the clause, they said, was the binding of a player to a club for the entirety of his baseball life. In February, the U.S. Court of Appeals returned the case to a lower court, voting 2 to 1 in favor of Gardella's charge of "peonage...
...Zazes based their arguments on the right of the union to freedom of speech and cited anti-injunction laws to point up their appeal for a reversal of a lower-court decision restraining the union from picketing. Lockwood and Dauber, for the company, claimed that the union was trying to force their clients out of business and was therefore not entitled to the protection of the laws in its picketing activities...
...three-man tribunal before which the case was argued consisted of Hon. Carl V. Weygandt, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, Hon. Stanley F. Fuld, Associate justice of the New York Court of Appeals, and Hon. Laurence I. Duncan, Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court...
Geoffrey White '49, New England secretary of the Communist Party, spoke briefly on the anti-discrimination measures before the General Court which he considered as dangerous trends...