Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford Legal Aid Society
...term "justice"? Noah Webster in his white dictionary defines justice as "the quality of being correct or right, honest, impartial and fair in representation of facts." Plato defined justice as "every part doing its own work and not interfering with others." Aristotle taught that justice included both the legal and the fair. Can it be that from the chairs around the table of the smoke filled room that the Black man was not included when someone uttered the words "Liberty and Justice For All"? I along with H. Rapp Brown and other so dubbed militants by White America contend that...
...described it, his role as presidential adviser has been grossly exaggerated. While he was indeed called in on "a few critical matters," most notably Viet Nam and the Detroit riots, he said that his role was not to shape policy but to synthesize the arguments of others in clear legal style. "My function," he noted, "has been to listen to what is said . . . then to sum up the arguments on the one side, the considerations on the other...
...town, in turn, has shown its fist. Starting back in 1967, the township has served Owner Walter K. Pleuthner, 83, with legal papers ordering him to demolish the house. Local officials believe a succession of small fires have damaged the structure so much that it is "dangerous and unsafe." Pleuthner contends that the fires only "mellowed" his home's great oak beams, answers each suit with delaying tactics or countersuit. When officials threatened to bulldoze the structure last month, Pleuthner's lawyer won a temporary restraining order. Said he: "Scarsdale doesn't like it because it doesn...
Paintings cover the walls and ceilings, and still Pleuthner doodles on. The dial of his bathroom scales shows a baby's face. He answers legal documents with pastel scrawls on colored construction paper. Recently, and with a little embarrassment, his lawyer turned the town's official notices over to the courts complete with an emblazoned DON'T TREAD ON ME and coiled snake -Pleuthner's art work and heartfelt response. Cocking his head, he says: "The people in Scarsdale may be wealthy, but esthetically, they're paupers...