Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Legal-Eagle Eyes. The new look for the law began soon after Earl Warren came out of his successful California political career (see box) to become Chief Justice. His first major opinion was in the memorable school desegregation case, and he was joined in it by all his brethren on the court. But while millions cheered the result, many lawyers had an uneasy feeling that it hung on too much sociological ballooning and not enough legal ballast. More than a year ago sharp legal-eagle eyes began to open wide at signs of changes to come. The Warren court reversed...
...proper legal definition of "advocacy and teaching," Harlan's opinion pointed to the 1949 jury instructions of Judge Harold Medina in the landmark trial in New York of Communist Party Secretary Eugene Dennis and ten other top U.S. Reds. The Medina instructions, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1951, said that the Smith Act denounced not the "abstract doctrine" of violent overthrow but the "teaching and advocacy of action" in "language reasonably and ordinarily calculated to incite persons to such action." Apparently, to the Supreme Court's mind, the key phrase was "incite to action"-and Judge Mathes...
...Court ruled in effect that the State Department's internal regulations took precedence over the congressional rider and thus over the national law. Specifically the court found that Secretary of State Dean Acheson had improperly dismissed Diplomat John Stewart Service, 47, even though Acheson had specifically taken his legal grounds from the "absolute discretion" granted in the congressional rider...
...baby she had called Guy was in reality a girl, she thought it an act of providence, and pursued the matter no further. Jeanne Derock, on the other hand, was mystified and indignant. Unwillingly taking the boy she had registered as Louise, she made no effort to change his legal name, instead began a long and dusty march from bureaucrat to bureaucrat, seeking restitution of her daughter...
Seldom in so short a span do newspapers have to grapple with such complex legal issues as those in the Page One headlines last week. They ranged from the indictment of Russia's rape of an entire nation to the fine points of Supreme Court concern for the rights of individuals. Abstruse and remote though most of them might be in their philosophical underpinnings, these topics aroused Americans because they converged on the central theme of freedom and justice under law-whether in Japan or Germany, whether for Hungarians or Americans...