Word: courts
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Still more dialogue is needed, according to Berle, around another center of power, the Supreme Court. Berle calls the modern court "a revolutionary committee" that has reached "a power position senior to both the executive and legislative branches." He considers the Warren court's assumption of legislative responsibility both inevitable and desirable-in his terms, its school-desegregation and reapportionment decisions filled "fragments of chaos." He foresees, however, that the court's increasing use of the 14th Amendment, especially its "equal protection of the laws" doctrine, can be logically extended from schools and voting to such new areas...
...Minutes, a novel that records the thoughts of a woman while she is enjoying intercourse. "Filth!" cry the D.A., the church and civilian smut-busters. "Art," intones the defense and assorted experts. "Shame," says the reader who recognizes that Wallace fails to show an awareness of the 1966 Supreme Court ruling on Fanny Hill. The decision stated that a book offending community standards could be proscribed only if it was found to be "utterly without redeeming social value." Had Wallace let this fact into his fabrication, the case of The Seven Minutes would have lost nearly all the artificial relevance...
...sure he's not in court now, where he spent the last six months?" a demonstrator shouted. Berg has charged that Watson initiated the trespass action against him, but Watson has declined to comment...
Berg was subpoeanaed Oct. 22 for criminal trespass on Harvard property. Berg told the rally he appeared yesterday morning before Judge Edward M. Viola in the East Cambridge Third District Court and was granted a continuance until...
...court clerk said yesterday that the new law had not yet gone into effect at the time of Berg's alleged offense, and thus could not be applied to his case...