Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perilous City. But a great city like New York is full of perils. Three evenings later an attorney named Chester Mandel went into night court, and got a summons charging Bogart with simple assault. His client, an ultra-shapely young female named Robin Roberts, pulled her off-the-shoulder dress low on the port side and, as photographers leered happily, disclosed three marks on her upper bosom or lower shoulder. She explained that they were swellings and contusions...
...State Supreme Court is currently examining New York's Feinberg Anti-Subversive Law for symptoms of constitutionality. A number of civic and political groups have asked for a permanent injunction against the bill, which would root "disloyal" teachers out of New York public schools. These organizations claim the law would install "thought control" in the Empire State. The bill's framers say their measure will protect "children of tender years" from the Communist ideology...
Here is what the Legislature did: An old New York statute prohibits teachers who advocate violent overthrow of the government. But since no court of law has yet decided that any particular group preaches revolution, the Legislature figured it had better write a decision of its own. So it passed a law ordering the Board of Regents to make up a list of "subversive" organizations, whose members could not teach in New York public schools...
Lesson for school children: By executive action, outside a court of law, decide that a group advocates revolution. Then forget that in this country guilt is individually determined and presume that any member of a group is automatically a party to that organization's supposed crime...
...realistic mock trial was presented for first year law students last night as an experiment sponsored by the teaching fellows of the Law School. A Law School professor and a prominent Boston attorney argued the case of Starr vs. Keene before a Federal District Judge in the Langdell Court Room...