Word: courts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force immediate compliance, said Finch, "would cause chaos, confusion and an education catastrophe" for the school systems involved. The Administration went to a federal district court to get sanctions for the delay. The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund fought the local decision up to the Supreme Court. Thus, ironically, the Administration's emphasis on working through the courts-an approach tending to make integration slower and less painful for the South-produced a Supreme Court demand for a faster pace...
...racketeering." Now Mollenhoff is a White House deputy counsel charged with digging out Government malfeasance and corruption from the inside. He has scoured the record of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., and has flatly rejected as character assassination the conflict of interest charges Democrats have leveled against the Supreme Court nominee. His efforts have produced one notable success so far: he was responsible for the resignation of Major General Carl Turner as Chief U.S. Marshal before the recent Army scandal broke involving kickbacks and payoffs in the operation of NCO clubs...
Originally, the inquest was to have begun Sept. 3 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard. But Kennedy's lawyers argued that the inquest would not really be a neutral inquiry. They said that it would be an adversary proceeding in which Kennedy-under the guidelines set by District Court Judge James Boyle -would be denied crucial rights. Boyle had wanted to open the inquest to press coverage and to deny Kennedy's attorneys the right to cross-examine witnesses called by District Attorney Edmund Dinis. Therefore, Kennedy petitioned a higher court to order the inquest to be held...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court last week did not give Kennedy everything he requested. Boyle will preside at the inquest. Further, it will be up to the district judge to determine whether witnesses' lawyers will have the right to question their own clients and other witnesses. But Kennedy did win a partial victory. The inquest will be private, with the record impounded until the case is finally closed. "These general rules," said the Supreme Judicial Court, "tend to avoid embarrassment by premature publicity."* The court also noted that "Petitioner Kennedy's own resort to television may have increased public...
...court's decision still holds some dangers for Kennedy. Privacy, similar to that of a grand jury proceeding, could, of course, protect Kennedy's interests if Dinis does later press for prosecution. Theoretically, Kennedy at least will be spared an indictment by headline. Given the degree of interest in the case, however, leaks, rumors and speculation are bound to spring from the inquest. These could result in gross distortions or wild theorizing. The shortage of hard facts and the oversupply of half answers since Mary Jo Kopechne died have all along been most damaging to Kennedy...