Word: lawyer
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When a Birmingham church was bombed in 1963 and four black Sunday-school girls were killed, a young white lawyer named Charles Morgan Jr. stood up before the businessmen's club and blamed the entire white community for the crime. Driven out of his town by harassment and death threats, he returned to the South in 1964 as the director of the American Civil Liberties Union Southern Region. He sued for integrated prisons and juries, legislative reapportionment and voting rights, and defended the likes of Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond and Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Aaron Henry...
...Morgan now trying to prove that a big corporation like Sears, Roebuck is being discriminated against in a matter involving Government rules designed to aid blacks and women? Morgan, now 48 and a prospering Washington lawyer, sees no conflict: "There's nothing in the Constitution that says anybody isn't entitled to a defense against discrimination, and in that sense there's no difference between cases involving 'Bull' Connor and blacks, and the EEOC and Sears...
David Hinden, government prosecutor, agreed to accept a partial verdict, but Axel Kleiboemer, Flood's lawyer, objected. Kleiboemer said the jury's deadlocked situation provided "no indication their disagreement does not affect all counts...
...This brief makes an impressive case that Ida Nudel could not have been guilty of 'malicious hooliganism' under Soviet law," Drinan, who is also a lawyer, said yesterday...
...McRae denominations are among the most enthusiastic advocates of religious involvement in politics. Nonetheless, they believe that while the Constitution gives religious groups every right to lobby, they should not be allowed to push through legislation on certain kinds of issues like abortion or birth control. Plaintiffs' Lawyer Rhonda Copelon of the Center for Constitutional Rights defines these issues as ones where religious groups provide "major support" and policy is justified mainly by "reference to intrinsically religious concepts...