Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bullets & Batons. In the first trial hearings late in December, the defendants found themselves penned up in the center of the courtroom in a 6-ft.-high cage of steel scaffolding and wire netting. Only after a sardonic prisoner hung a scribbled "Do Not Feed" sign on the wire and the defense attorneys threatened to walk out in a body was the cage removed...
...cage went, but outside the courtroom Negro crowds in the street, clubbed by the police, answered with a volley of stones. A few nervous policemen drew their guns and fired into the crowd. At least 20 people were wounded that day and the next; court was nervously adjourned for three weeks...
Strategy Backfiring. Many Southern legal eagles argued no, and Conservative Democrat Dave Lawrence stated their case: "Contempt charges . . . have been applied heretofore primarily to acts committed in a courtroom or with respect to property seized by an individual which he may be forced to bring into a courtroom." This view ignored the classic use of the contempt-of-court charge to enforce the injunctive power, e.g., in the fines totaling $30,000 levied in 1946 and 1948 against United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis for disobeying a court order to return his miners to work. The contempt citation...
...still a state of the Union or has it abdicated entirely to the Federal Government?" States'-Righter Lawrence was reflecting the anguish and anger of other states'-righters as the Clinton, Tenn. integration case (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.) moved from the local schoolroom to the federal courtroom with the arraignment last week of 16 segregationist leaders before a federal judge on con-tempt-of-court charges...
Mallet Case. In Garfield, N.J., two weeks after he was questioned and found not guilty of street fighting, Martin Ressnick was haled into the same courtroom, admitted that during his first visit he had swiped the magistrate's gavel...