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The all-white jury in Los Angeles Municipal Court leaned forward as a young deputy city attorney summed up the state's case against a Negro woman charged with impeding a lawful arrest. "If Rena Frye had not interfered with the police officer when they were trying to arrest...
* Another Shemittah rule, which applies to Jews everywhere, requires the cancellation of debts at the end of the sabbatical year. For centuries Jews have got around this by turning the debts owed them over to a religious court by means of a declaration called a prosbul (Greek for "before the...
Girard's trustees contend that they are helpless to change the offending clause. In 1962, however, New Orleans' Tulane University broke a similar color bar by voluntarily admitting Negroes and thereby starting a court test of its power to do so. Because private discrimination is lawful, ruled a...
He was short, not overly bright, and bowlegged from years of polo. Yet Porfirio Rubirosa parlayed his genius for making women forget all that into 30 years of grand spree on the international circuit, a private fortune, a worldwide reputation as the last of the Casanovas, and lawful unions with...
In 1265, after defeating King Henry III at the battle of Lewes, Simon de Montfort, the ambitious French-born Earl of Leicester, summoned the barons, bishops and warrior knights of England to a national colloquy in London. To muster popular support for his cause among the new commercial classes, Montfort...