Word: dorsen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee of four law professors and Norman Dorsen, president of the ACLU, wrote the first draft of the statement, Ruth B. Ginsberg, general counsel for the ACLU, said yesterday...
Five days before the committee was slated to begin the new round of public hearings into the two big contributions, the head of the milk-deal investigation, David Dorsen, visited Chief Counsel Sam Dash in what a committee source described as "a panic." Dorsen pleaded that he was simply not prepared to begin a public hearing. After reviewing his work, Dash agreed, and told the staff on Monday that he would recommend a postponement to committee members the next day. What happened at that Tuesday meeting in Sam Ervin's office revealed the divergent courses, both personal and political...
...courts as evidence of his pandering intent, Ginzburg said, "At the worst, it was a very bad joke. But to send a man to prison for a bad joke is hardly what the founding fathers envisioned as a free and robust press." New York University Law Professor Norman Dorsen, author of several books on civil liberties, agreed: "The law has been applied unfairly to one person. Nobody, including the Supreme Court, knows what obscenity...