Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start, nine Roman Catholic pacifists on trial in a Baltimore federal court last week knew that they did not have a prayer. Defense Lawyer William Kunstler conceded immediately that the nine, who included three former missionaries, a nurse, an artist and two priests, had broken the law by taking 378 files from Draft Board 33 in suburban Catonsville last May and burning them with homemade napalm...
...Catonsville Nine did, however, use some highly unusual arguments. They contended that "some property has no right to exist," namely the draft files, because they were instruments of an illegal war. They argued that they had broken one law in order to halt what they believed was a greater act of outlawry. But Chief Judge Roszel C. Thomsen underlined the distinction between the pacifists' motives and their admitted intent to commit the crime of destroying government property and interfering with the administration of the Selective Service system. It was of no legal significance, Thomsen told the jury "that...
After the coup, Colonel Torrijos explained that a two-man provisional junta, composed of Colonels José M. Pinilla and Bolivar Urrutia, would govern the country only until a new electoral law could be drawn up and elections held for the presidency and National Assembly. Torrijos promised that Guard officers would not be allowed to run for office. Whoever comes to power in Panama must face the extremely sensitive task of negotiating a new treaty with the U.S. about the status of the 54-year-old canal and the possibility of building a new one. The political rallying...
...Lawyer James D. Lorenz Jr., now 30, gave up private law practice in Los Angeles two years ago to establish California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., which provides free legal help to the state's farm workers, many of them Mexican Americans. C.R.L.A. works through the law and tackles anything from predatory salesmen who extract $500 in time-payments from uncomprehending victims for $100 cameras, to California Governor Ronald Reagan, who tried vainly last year to curtail the program's influence. C.R.L.A. has won 85% of the 4,000 cases it has taken to court. The benefits, as Lorenz...
...Robert E Keeton and Jeffrey O'Connell, two activist law professors, of Harvard and the University of Illinois, have teamed up to research and do battle with the auto-insurance business, which in their well-documented opinion sells inadequate and inequitable protection to the accident victim (TIME Essay, Jan. 26). So far, they have won nothing but hostility and bitter opposition from most insurance companies. But their Basic Protection plan, drafted into a model bill, has been presented to legislatures in eight states...