Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jest. Last week Federal Judge Harold R. Medina ruled for the court: "This is a curious and unprofitable sort of jesting, as others may not view the humor in the same light . . . These explanations are wholly without merit or substance." The court unanimously upheld the $175,001 judgment against Pegler and his Hearst employers, who must pay the bill under terms of Pegler's contract. It is one of the biggest libel awards ever given by a U.S. court...
...testify about past associates, as well as an obligation to his profession to testify about himself. Meeting these conditions is of prime importance. It is in deciding whether the particular investigating committee meets certain specifications that the individual professor should have the widest and freest exercise of his own judgment. The investigating court or committee or organization should clearly and specifically be legally authorized to make its inquires. Its motives must be ostensibly impartial and objective. Quite obviously, Harvard's own most important case--that of Professor Furry--does not fit such specifications. McCarthy committee's authorization...
...noted Washington lawyer, Abe Fortas, many Congressional investigations such as the McCarthy hearings have failed flagrantly to meet these tests. Fortas has said, "There are no standards of judgment, no rules, no traditions of procedures or judicial demeanor, no statute of limitations, no appeals, no boundaries of relevance, and no finality. In short, anything goes; and everything frequently does--and often on television...
...York Board of Education over its public school teachers has so far been upheld by the courts. And the Board, in demanding that certain teachers testify concerning their former associates in the Community Party, has explicitly reject all claims of a right of conscience and private judgment...
With her right to her personal beliefs was not questioned, her dismissal was based on her continued membership in the party after 1947 and her statements to the committee as to the nature, purposes, and activities of the Communist Party, showing a lack of "perception, understanding, and judgment necessary in one who is to be entrusted with the responsibility for teaching the children of the Town...