Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court did not go so far as to find the state's legal-practice statutes unconstitutional. But even so, Sobol feels that his case will serve as a healthy precedent. "The decision," he says, "makes pretty clear that an out-of-state lawyer properly practicing this kind of law can't, be punished by local authorities...
When Eleanor and Lloyd Roberts were summoned by the Internal Revenue Service to discuss their taxes, they found a novel reason for refusing to show up. Under federal law, they pointed out, any witness who is subpoenaed for a Government hearing is entitled to mileage and witness fees. No fees, no appearance. The trial court in Florida rejected the argument. The Robertses, said the court, were not entitled to witness fees because they were the individuals being investigated...
...life ended in an explosion of violence. One night in 1945, while visiting his son-in-law at the Austrian resort of Mittersill, he stepped outdoors for a cigar, unaware that U.S. occupation forces were at that moment closing in on the house to arrest his son-in-law for black-market activities. Somehow he encountered a U.S. soldier in the dark. He was shot, staggered inside and died...
...facilities. Ireland has no nuclear reactor, for example, because it could not in the past afford to build one at each university. Under the government's plan, both schools will keep their separate liberal arts faculties. Trinity is to be responsible for all work in biological sciences, law and medicine; University College will take over the physical sciences, engineering and business school programs. Students at both campuses will have access to Trinity's magnificent 1,000,000-volume library...
Smoking pot may be against the law, but it is not necessarily a sin. That seems to be the consensus among Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy who have had any dealings with the marijuana-puffing youth of the turned-on generation...