Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gaunt, wrinkled left-winger named James Imbrie, running for governor on the ticket of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party, decided to fight the law. Imbrie refused to take the oath, went to court to prevent the state from noting the fact on the ballot...
...lost in the lower court, but last week the appellate division of the New Jersey superior court upheld...
...state constitution, said the court, already requires an adequate oath. The loosely worded new law would deny New Jerseyites an essential constitutional right -"the right to select unworthy candidates, candidates who the legislature fears might bring ruin to the state...
...dompteur or wild animal tamer with Pinder's traveling circus. He was fired after his first appearance, when an elephant which he was supposed to lead around the ring refused to budge. Steinmann took his problem to a Paris lawyer who in turn took it to court. "To say," roared Lawyer Theodore Valensi, demanding 1,500,000 francs damages, "that a lion tamer cannot control an animal as docile as an elephant is the worst of insult...
...check for services along the way. Therefore, in a trial in the District of Columbia, Justice James K. Prector ruled that Curley and three other defendants were guilty of mail fraud. But, in his decision, Prector asked for a full review of the case by a higher court; the Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision in a close vote and the Supreme Court refused to review the case. Curley was sentenced to 18 months at Danbury...