Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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United Front. Aware that the trend of public sentiment is toward the bill, the Vatican in its eleventh battle against a divorce law is making less of a direct attack. In a shrewd maneuver, the church and pro-Vatican Christian Democrats have mounted a campaign largely aimed at wives. "Pay attention," says a street poster. "If the divorce law passes, your husband, when he happens to lose his head over a girl younger than you, can leave the house, ask for a separation and after five years move on to a new marriage whether you like...
...Ainsworth Jr. of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the new code provides only one narrow loophole. Because several judges protested that the ban on nonjudicial activities was too sweeping, an exception was made for services in the public interest, such as teaching at law schools-provided that approval is obtained from the appropriate judicial council, that the services do not interfere with judicial duties, and that the pay is publicly announced...
Otherwise, the code decrees: "A judge in regular active service shall not accept compensation of any kind, whether in the form of loans, gifts, gratuities, honoraria or otherwise, for services to be performed by him except that provided by law for the performance of his judicial duties." Beginning next year, each judge must also file with the conference an annual statement of investments, other assets, income and liabilities. By September, Judge Ainsworth's panel will draft legislation to "ensure the conference being able to enforce the motions we have passed...
...already moving to abide voluntarily by the new rules. William J. Brennan Jr. canceled several lectures, prepared to liquidate his $15,000 share in a Virginia real estate venture, and withdrew from the faculty of the Appellate Judges' Seminar, an annual course at the New York University Law School. Incoming Chief Justice Warren Burger has indicated that he will give up his $2,000-a-year fee as a trustee of the Mayo Foundation...
...debt in court before her pay check was cut, she was deprived of her property without the processes guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. By a vote of 7 to 1, the Supreme Court agreed, although Justice Hugo Black, in an angry dissent, called the voiding of Wisconsin's law a "plain judicial usurpation of state legislative power." - In 1964, WGCB, a radio station in Red Lion, Pa., broadcast a right-wing preacher's attack on Fred J. Cook, a frequent contributor to the liberal weekly magazine, The Nation. When Cook's request for a chance to reply...