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...they appointed a special counsel when a challenge to the Virgin Islands' lenient divorce laws struck them as halfhearted. And the court has occasionally appointed lawyers for indigent or inadequately represented litigants, as it did in 1963 when Abe Fortas was asked to argue Clarence Gideon's landmark right-to-counsel case. But such examples are scarcely parallel. In the current tax cases, says Democratic Congressman Don Edwards of California, "the question is: 'Is the Justice Department interested in enforcing civil rights...
...addition, the Mass Ave building, known as the Francis Allen House and located near the Cambridge Common, was the first Cambridge structure to be declared a "protected landmark" under an ordinance that also establishes "neighborhood conservation zones...
...landmark and conversion ordinance prohibits the substantial alteration or demolition of buildings without approval from the Cambridge Historical Commission...
...prominent Washington lawyer, shrewd political adviser and former Justice of the Supreme Court; of a ruptured aorta; in Washington, D.C. Fortas was noted for his superlative legal craftsmanship, which also became a hallmark of the influential law firm he helped found, now known as Arnold & Porter. He argued the landmark Gideon vs. Wainwright case, in which the Supreme Court found in 1963 that poor defendants are entitled to free lawyers. President Lyndon Johnson, of whom he was a confidant, appointed him to the court in 1965. Four years later Fortas became the first Justice to resign under public criticism, amid...
...this landmark vote entail such a perverse set of requirements for passage? Why did advocates of the constitution help count the votes? Why did some voting tables go unattended? Despite the obvious improprieties, no apologies have been forthcoming from the "yes" advocates except to justify a tainted victory. Logic would suggest that the real apologia, is owed to the majority of undergraduates and that another election be held...