Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World Federalism will spread to the graduate schools tonight when a new club for graduates forms at 7:30 p.m. after an address by Louis B. Sohn, LL.M. '40, lecturer on law, in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House...
...State Law May Ban Weaker...
...being used by the President's Loyalty Board, Justice Murphy, in bridges v. Wixon, 326 US 135, 163 (1945) said: "The doctrine of personal guilt is one of the fundamental principles of our jurisprudence. It partakes of the very essence of the concept of freedom and due process to law." The standard so well advocated by Justice Murphy is completely obliterated by the use of the guilt by association doctrine...
...Lovett, 328 US 303. 317-18 (1946) reviewed the required proceeding safeguards in a criminal proceeding. "An accused in court must be tried by an impartial jury, has a right to be represented by counsel, he must be clearly informed of the charges against him, the law which he is charged with violating must have been passed before he committed the act charged, he must be confronted by the witnesses against him, he must not be impelled to incriminate himself, he cannot twice be put in jeopardy for the same offense, and even after conviction no cruel and unusual punishment...
That proceedings before the Loyalty Board violate most of these safeguards is clear. The Attorney General may arbitrarily place organization on his list and is not required by law to give any reasons for his action; the organization has no right to a hearing; individuals accused of "disloyalty" are not tried by a jury, have no right to counsel, are not clearly informed of the charges against them; the loyalty order is ex post facto in effect, and there is no right to examine witnesses or evidence used against the accused. This is the type of un-American proceeding which...