Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing it threw some 390,000 overseas dependents, along with 23,500 U.S. civilian employees of the armed forces, into a sort of legal no man's land. It also proved, if anyone had doubted it previously, that Supreme Court decisions depend heavily on the personalities and philosophical underpinnings of the justices who make them...
...Justice Department brought suit to force Du Pont to give up its G.M. shares. After five years of legal wrestling, Chicago's U.S. District Court Judge Walter J. LaBuy dismissed the Government's suit. Ruled Judge LaBuy, after studying more than 2,000 exhibits and 8,283 pages of testimony: "The Government has failed to prove conspiracy, monopolization, a restraint of trade, or any reasonable probability of a restraint." Attorney General Herbert Brownell's Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court,* but with scant hope of winning a reversal: LaBuy's decision seemed foolproof and final...
Most cases brought before the Supreme Court turn on questions of law, but the basic issue in the Du Pont case was interpretation of the facts. Judge LaBuy had found "no need ... to discuss legal principles or precedents," because in his opinion the facts did not prove the Government's charges. In overruling LaBuy, the Supreme Court took the same set of facts and saw in them a "reasonable probability" that was invisible to LaBuy...
...surface, the Beck Junior bearing seemed just as depressing as any other Teamster hearing but there was more to it than met the ear; Lawyer John McClellan, nettled by reluctant witnesses, was hard at work trying to define some legal limits on the capricious use of the Fifth Amendment. Beck Junior and his kissing cousin, Joe McEvoy, who was next up, had overworked a new wrinkle in abuse of the Fifth. When Beck would refuse to answer questions on such matters as his occupation or salary, McClellan would ask if he "honestly believed" his answer would tend to incriminate...
There are dozens of other perfectly legal ways to save money by giving it away. One of the fastest growing is the short-term or temporary trust for both charitable and personal use. Theoretically, upper-bracket taxpayers can use it to cut their taxes from 87% to as little as 20%; it also works effectively for people with incomes as small as $10,000 annually. The wise taxpayer merely turns over part of his investments with their income to his child for his education or to an aged relative, for support for a minimum of ten years...