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...John Hanna of Columbia University, Robert W. Miller of Syracuse University, and William Covington Hardee of the Harvard Law School...
...fired (he is now a special deputy sheriff in Las Vegas, Nev.). Although Gugel got back his job as police chief after he was acquitted on the nonfeasance charge, he still faced a federal indictment for his attack on Photographer Bailey. Last week in a U.S. District Court in Covington, Ky., a federal jury found that Policeman Gugel had exceeded his powers, convicted him of violating Photographer Bailey's civil rights and fined him $1,000 plus court costs. Said District judge MacSwinford: "Bailey was performing his duties and had a right to take pictures [and] the right...
Horsky, a graduate of the University of Washington and the Law School, spoke on "The Washington Lawyer." Using his firm of Covington and Burling as an example, Horsky said that Washington law has become one for the specialist...
...public pre-college schools. The decision that has long been used by Southern states as the guide on segregation is Plessy v. Ferguson, a transportation case. It arose on June 7, 1892, when Homer Adolph Plessy bought a ticket on the East Louisiana Railroad, from New Orleans to Covington, La. Plessy, seven-eighths white and one-eighth Negro, took a seat in the white coach on the segregated train. When he refused to move, he was taken off and jailed. The case reached the Supreme Court in 1896, and the court ruled that Louisiana's law, calling for "equal...
...Covington also contributed to the onslaught with victories in the broad jump and dash...