Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking for the Supreme Court, which viewed TV news films of the entire incident, Justice Arthur Goldberg said that "the students were wellbehaved throughout." What the police feared, he added, was white reaction; their paramount duty was to protect rather than attack the peaceful Negroes. Out went Cox's first conviction, by unanimous vote-along with Louisiana's "unconstitutionally vague" breach-of-the-peace statute...
...considering Cox's next case, Goldberg upheld the principle of Louisiana's obstruction-of-passage statute. "Governmental authorities have the duty and responsibility to keep their streets open and available for movement." Indeed, "we emphatically reject the notion urged by appellant" that the First Amendment protects street demonstrations just as much as pure speech. But the Louisiana statute contains no precise standards, and the way Baton Rouge police put it to work, said Goldberg, was "an unwarranted abridgment of appellant's freedom of speech and assembly." Out went the second conviction...
...problem that first arose when U.S. Communists picketed trials of the U.S. party's lead ers. In 1949, Congress passed a law banning such demonstrations "in or near" all federal courthouses. Louisiana copied that Saw (as did Massachusetts and Pennsylvania) to deal with demonstrations near state courthouses. Goldberg praised Louisiana's law as "a precise, narrowly drawn regulatory statute which prohibits specific behavior." It does not violate the First Amendment, he said, because picketing is "subject to regulation, even though intertwined with expression and association." To this point at least, the court was unanimous. Then could...
...William Goldberg and his wife, who operate the Laundermat, said that the door on the Bow St. entrance had been removed shortly after 2 a.m. on Friday. The thief took only the cash register, leaving Mrs. Goldberg's wristwatch which lay conspicuously on the counter next to the register...
...Goldberg estimated his total loss at $450. He was not insured...