Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Belliro expects the court to throw out the law against exhibiting birth control devices but uphold the law against distributing them, he said. He is handling Baird's case at his own expense, but the costs of printing the brief were supplied by Playboy magazine...
...student host was not happy to be a student host. He made it clear to me within ten minutes of our meeting that he had only volunteered his room because everyone else on his corridor had and he had been subject to some "pressure" and, besides, he had Law Boards on Saturday and he didn't like being dislocated before a test like that, and he hoped I didn't mind but he was going to take his radio and alarm clock with him when he left. He also let me know he intended to stay in his room...
...volunteered to write a story for the paper, and after a great deal of snickering and behind-the-hand jokes I was assigned to cover the Abe Fortas Film Festival at the Law School. The Festival consisted of the seven films that were so obscene that they were only saved from destruction by Abe Fortas' vote on the Supreme Court. Somehow appropriate for the first night of Coed Week...
...dismay of death row, the court ruled 4 to 3 last week that capital punishment is constitutional. Vainly the three dissenters argued that the death penalty should be struck down because California law offers no guidelines to help juries decide whether a convicted man should go to prison or the gas chamber. "If a civilized society cannot say why one man should be executed and another not," replied the dissenting opinion written by Justice Mathew Tobriner, "it does not rationally, logically take life. Instead, it grossly denies due process of law, inflicting death on the basis of a trial that...
...mentioned as one of Richard Nixon's leading candidates for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, would like to see a constructive debate over the amendment, "free from the compulsion of precedent and the cacophony of cliches." In a recent series of lectures at the University of Cincinnati Law School, Friendly tried to start the debate by proposing that the U.S. amend the amendment-or at least the self-incrimination provision that states that no one "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself...