Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norfolk (six high schools shut down). In two similar lawsuits naming Almond and various state officials as defendants, 15 white parents asked a federal district court to 1) declare Virginia's school-closing law unconstitutional, and 2) enjoin Almond & Co. from meddling with Norfolk schools. The school closings, argued the suits, violate the children's constitutional rights, do them "irreparable injury." and impose unfair financial burdens on the parents. Norfolk's Committee for Public Schools sent Almond a 6,000-signature petition asking him to get the schools reopened fast...
...signed by Lieut. General William Tecumseh Sherman for the U.S., and by Chief Barboncito and eleven other tribal chiefs for the Navajos. It allotted the Navajos their scrubby, brush-covered acreage along with treaty rights. Modern Navajo interpretation of the treaty: the tribe can disregard any state or federal law that does not suit its purposes. "A treaty sovereign," argues urbane Joseph F. McPherson. onetime U.S. Justice Department attorney who now works for the Navajos, "has a certain right of consent-and sometimes the Navajo just doesn't consent." Typically, Navajos in recent weeks...
...Passed their own right-to-work law, which is tougher than similar state laws in Utah and Arizona...
...policemen are watching for offenders on the streets, but so far everyone is complying with the law," a spokesman for the Cambridge police department commented...
Dean Bundy came out for gubinatorial nominee Charles Gibbons, while Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, was one of 137 lawyers to sign a statement supporting Christian A. Herter Jr. for Attorney General...