Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force immediate compliance, said Finch, "would cause chaos, confusion and an education catastrophe" for the school systems involved. The Administration went to a federal district court to get sanctions for the delay. The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund fought the local decision up to the Supreme Court. Thus, ironically, the Administration's emphasis on working through the courts-an approach tending to make integration slower and less painful for the South-produced a Supreme Court demand for a faster pace...
...order at 10 a.m. today in the Superior Court. He will base his arguments, he said last night, on the vague terms in which the defendants are named and on Johnson's alleged failure to prove that the order is necessary to prevent irreparable harm and is the only legal remedy available-prerequisites for a restraining order...
...unlikely that ROTC could have stayed at Harvard after the first faculty action regardless of the administration's failure to understand or attempt to misrepresent the resolution. When the Defense Department decided to phase out the program at Harvard, the legal situation it faced was no different than the position established in February. The occupation of University Hall and those most dramatic and publicly broadcast faculty votes which followed did not materially change ROTC's status. ROTC would have gone without the April crisis...
ABOVE all, Hayes is in the contest to win. He is heavily in debt and is the legal guardian of a younger brother and sister, both in college. "I'm in this to win and to effect political change through the system. God knows it needs it." It does...
...committee members said they took this lower fine into account when recommending legal action. "We tried to enforce the rule with the minimum penalty." Wilson said...