Word: jurists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land which his church considers unjust? This delicate question was posed by the Pope himself last week before the central committee of the Union of Catholic Italian Lawyers in Rome. The Pope's answer: when a state law conflicts with the church's teaching, a Catholic jurist need not enforce...
...never a particularly distinguished jurist; it was not his game. But he did make his voice heard in defense of civil liberties-in which he included the right of Jehovah's Witnesses even to blaspheme his own Catholic Church. He protested the court-martial of the Japanese General Homma, who ordered the Bataan death march, as no trial at all but a "revengeful blood purge." Gradually he withdrew from social life. His heart had never been quite equal to his spiritual drive, nor was it equal to the exacting, wearing work of the court. His Bible...
...jurist cannot speak out on controversial subjects, "on or off the record," noted Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge, who may have been taking a little dig at some of his more gabby brethren of the court. "All [a justice] can do is talk in platitudes and generalities about things that don't matter ... So why should people spend their time listening...
...Harold Medina, listened patiently, though patience was tried to the breaking point. Justice had lent its ear while the Reds' lawyers tediously cross-examined 24 jurors, trying to prove that New York federal juries discriminated against Negroes, Jews, the poor. Rocking back & forth in a high-backed chair, Jurist Medina now & again pleaded with the Communists' shouting, ranting lawyers to remember where they were. Justice was also debonair and deft, so that even Party-Liner Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast, writing in the Communist Daily Worker, acknowledged Medina's "old world charm," and recognized that "like many...
Roscoe Pound, dean emeritus of the Law School, refused to confirm or deny last night a Boston newspaperman's report that the jurist found no evidence of corruption in the legal system of China...