Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself from the bench during Lattimore's forthcoming trial on charges of perjury. In the past such action has come only after evidences of exceptionally flagrant abuse, yet the Government's case against Youngdalh is a flimsy one. Of Youngdahl has a bias, it apparently did not affect his judgment, for in dismissing these charges he was upheld by an overwhelming 8 to 1 majority in the Court of Appeals. The two counts this court reinstated were so minor that the Government decided to drop its case rather than press for an indictment. The Court is now being asked...
...arrested in a violent transit strike. He got them acquitted. Before long he was vice president and general counsel of the Jamestown transit company. By the time he went to Washington, at 42, Jackson's abilities were widely recognized. His cases had included a $1,700,000 judgment, a hearing by lantern before a backwoods justice of the peace, and the defense of a Communist arrested for selling the Daily Worker on a public square. (Years later he wrote in a Supreme Court opinion that to disregard Communists' legal rights would be to "cast aside protection...
Tonight students will have the opportunity to pass their own judgment on last Saturday's disputed end zone touchdown by Cornell. The Student Council has announced that it will show the game movies free of charge in New Lecture Hall...
...does lie." It was a flat declaration of war on the party's leadership. By implication, Nye also declared war on the trade-union leaders, who, he hinted, did not represent their members' real wishes. Those leaders reacted promptly. "Mr. Bevan is a remarkable man, but his judgment is, so bad as to bring his genius to the gutter," snapped one unionist. "Apparently in his disappointment, Mr. Bevan has lost his head," said Arthur Deakin...
...would otherwise provoke hasty and irresponsible vigilante action." Brownell pointed out that the press has been guilty at times of standing in the way of justice by subverting "the process of impartial and orderly decision" or by influencing a judge or jury "before they have reached their own independent judgment." As a result, he approves of voluntary agreements between lawyers, court officials and newspapers that would help raise the level of court reporting by the press "without infringing on its freedom. However," concluded Brownell, "the chief responsibility for securing fair and impartial trials cannot be shifted to the press...