Word: halliday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defeated once in the lower courts, Cyrus Harvey, Jr. '47 and Bryant Halliday '49, managers of Brattle Films Inc., will continue to protest the constitutionality of the Public Safety Commissioner's banning powers. Massachusetts law permits the Commissioner to refuse Sunday licenses to films "inconsistent with the Sabbath's due observance...
...Halliday indicated yesterday that the Brattle should have no trouble winning its case on constitutional grounds. The danger, he said, is that the Massachusetts courts, which try to avoid constitutional issues, might side-track the case in questions of procedure. In the lower courts, the Brattle was defeated on procedural grounds...
...Brattle loses on the state level, Halliday plans to appeal to the Supreme Court in Washington, where he is confident of winning because of a recent court decision reversing a ban in a New York case...
Brattle Films Inc., under the management of Cyrus Harvey, Jr. '47 and Bryant Halliday '49, have filed suit in the Middlesex superior court testing the constitutional right of the Massachusetts Commissioner of Safety to ban "Miss Julie" last February. They expect the case to be heard within the next two weeks...
...abnormal are not necessarily insane." After four days of travel in that very strange borderland, the jury quickly returned to reality: "We find him guilty . . . That is the verdict of all of us." A clerk placed a black cap on the judge's bewigged head, and John Reginald Halliday Christie was sentenced "to suffer death by hanging" and to be "buried in the precincts of the prison...