Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many solutions to the dangers inherent in the "law's delay" have been suggested, ranging from abolition of the jury trial for civil cases to setting up non-judicial procedures for automobile litigation, which composes up to 90 percent of the calendar backlog. One of the most successful of these methods is the pre-trial conference between judge and lawyers. Here the issues are informally exposed, and the judge can familiarize himself with the case. If the conflict cannot be settled out of court, the trial, at least, can then proceed without routine delays...
...Prospect. Will the U.S. stand for years of delay-stretching according to Eastland's intention to "eternity." Certainly the dominant opinion in the North and West of the U.S. respects the sincerity and depth of Southern white feelings on this issue and shrinks from the thought of coercion. Just as certainly, the U.S. outside the South will not tolerate the indefinitely prolonged prospect of Negroes as a legally segregated group, with all the injustice involved in that status...
...those school districts are desegregated, and 256,000 Negro children-10% of the Negro enrollment in once-segregated areas-attend integrated schools. Prudently and considerately, the Supreme Court granted lower courts "practical flexibility" in enforcing the decision. In the word flexibility, diehard Southern segregationists saw room for maneuver and delay. And in Southern eyes, the existence of the possibility of delay inevitably put a premium on the politician who would do the most delaying-a politician like James Oliver Eastland...
...state and no one but the state can segregate under the police powers . . . The state, if necessary, can abolish school districts, create other ones and thus remove the corpus or basis of a suit. This would mean the whole case just start over, with years' delay...
...Lean Years. In Pittsburgh, W. Z. Sulenski finally paid a $6.01 Equitable Gas Co. bill dated Dec. 8, 1926, explained that the delay was caused by "pressing financial problems...