Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headlines. Thundered the San Francisco News: "It took centuries of bloody struggle to outlaw star chamber sessions, and the principle which requires judicial proceedings to be conducted in public still must be vigorously defended." San Francisco papers raced to get a higher court writ that would open up the courtroom. They won an order for Judge Geary either to open his court to the press or give an appellate court the reasons for his refusal...
Three College speakers will debate against Princeton tonight in the James Barr Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall in the annual triangular meeting dating from 1909. At the same time, another Harvard team will meet Yale at New Haven...
...prevent a man from carrying on his lawful pursuits or activities should not be allowed anywhere in the world," said Judge Ralph E. Parker as he glowered across the bench at the four men lined up in his Birmingham courtroom last week. The four were up on misdemeanor charges only eight days after participating in the attack on Negro Singer Nat "King" Cole as he entertained an all-white audience in the Municipal Auditorium (TIME, April 23). As a warning against similar incidents in Birmingham, Judge Parker imposed on each the maximum six-month jail sentence and $100 fine...
Largely on the strength of Cole's admission, Lawyer Williams turned to Federal Judge Raymond B. Keech to argue for dismissal. That night the judge worked until long after midnight on his decision. Next morning the courtroom was tense as he began to read it off. Principal point: Chairman Cole's subcommittee had exceeded its legitimate functions in questioning Icardi, "since neither affording an individual a forum in which to protest his innocence nor extracting testimony with a view to a perjury prosecution is a valid legislative purpose." Furthermore, the Icardi hearing amounted to a "legislative trial...
Diamond, O'Neil, and Bryden will defend the Negative against Princeton in the Ames Courtroom of Langdell Hall, with the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, presiding. Thompson, Frederickson, and King will debate the Affirmative at Yale, at the same time...