Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legal Nonentity." United Automobile Workers of America asked the City of Dearborn for "legal protection" next time it wanted to hand out union literature at the Ford Motor Co. plant. Dearborn's Attorney James E. Greene denied the ap plication. His opinion...
...organization, registered as an organization, as a firm, partnership, person or persons doing business under an assumed name by and in accordance with the statutes of the State. . . . We are forced to conclude that the named confederation on whose behalf you communicate with our Chief of Police is a legal nonentity...
Last week the National Bar Association (Negro) held its annual convention at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia, surveyed the place of the Negro in the legal profession, found it discouraging. With a U. S. Negro population of 11,890,000 there are but 1,247 Negro lawyers. Of the largest group, Washington, D. C.'s 225, over half are "sun-downers"' who work at political jobs days and practice law evenings. New York City has 112 Negro lawyers, mostly in Harlem. In the entire South there are but 200. Southern Negroes are either too poor...
...recently refused because of a "sense of humanity." Fed up with such melodramatic refusals of extradition as that by New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in 1932 in the case of Robert Elliott Moore (I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang), Georgia prepared for a legal roundup. "We are going after any others the other States may be holding from us," vowed Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers...
...court procedure in which the constitutionality of a Federal law is challenged, the court must notify the Attorney General. If the Attorney General then shows the court that the Government has "a legal interest or may have a probable interest"-in the case, he must be permitted to become a party to the case to present evidence, make arguments on the question of constitutionality...