Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lawyer from Harvard's Community Legal Assistance Office (CLAO) will defend the suspect in a crime involving Harvard-the attempted theft of the Gutenberg Bible from Widener Library. The trial begins Wednesday in Third District Court...
...CLAO. a legal service for indigents which uses Law School funds in criminal cases, is defending Vido K. Aras, 20, the Dorchester man accused of trying to steal the Bible on August...
Aras had asked CLAO to represent him before the arraignment, Lankton said, because he wanted legal advice immediately after his arrest. Lankton explained that Aras could not go to the Massachusetts Defenders Committee, the area's only other legal service for indigents, because committee lawyers will not talk to clients before being appointed by the court...
Died. Lee Pressman, 63, the C.I.O.'s legal counsel from 1936 until 1948, when his far-left politics finally cost him his job and career; of cancer; in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. Pressman never made any bones about his Communist leanings, often supporting the Moscow line. Yet as a union lawyer he was tops; he played a major role in negotiating the original C.I.O. contracts with such industrial giants as U.S. Steel and General Motors, and ably fought labor cases before the Supreme Court...
...high water floated the debris away. "Many of my people saw their houses blown away, but the insurance companies say this isn't so," says Chalin Perez, president of the Plaquemines police jury, the parish's governing body. Perez, a New Orleans attorney, is forming a community legal group to bring court action...