Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A.B.A. committees will labor for months ahead on a variety of legal and national problems. Studies in the works include the 25th Amendment on presidential disability; Electoral College reform; modernization of the A.B.A.'s 60-year-old canons of ethics; and expanded legal services for all citizens in all walks of life. The A.B.A. also voted to admit law students to associate membership beginning with their freshman year...
...Individual Rights and Responsibilities, which Marden hailed as a means of encouraging public understanding that rights and duties go hand in hand. "It will seek to nurture a sense of responsibility on the part of lawyers in the recognition and enforcement of these rights and responsibilities," said Marden. "When legal rights are challenged or infringed, as Justice Jackson once observed, they are worth 'just what some lawyer makes them worth...
Outraged, the Rose sisters asked Manhattan's Surrogate Court either to dismiss the executors or order them to bury the decedent. Surrogate Joseph A. Cox denied both motions, ruling that "it cannot be said that a fiduciary availing himself of a legal remedy is guilty of improper conduct." Added Cox: Burying the dead is the privilege of the next of kin, while it is "the obligation of the executors to pay the reasonable funeral expenses...
Nothing now prevents the sisters from burying Billy. Since Surrogate Cox's decision, the executors have taken the position that the sisters have a free hand to spend a "reasonable" sum on the burial. But the sisters seem preoccupied with their legal battle to break Billy's will, specifically the part that left the bulk of the estate-made up largely of A.T. & T. stock and assorted real estate-to the Billy Rose Foundation, which he set up in 1958 for "nonprofit and exclusively religious, charitable or educational purposes...
Last week, rapping his "public expressions of insubordination," the Vatican not only turned down DuBay's appeal of his suspension but also ordered him to end the sale and distribution of his book. What were the legal grounds? The book did not have his bishop's imprimatur, as required by canon law. DuBay protested that many other Catholics have published without imprimatur, that the church is making a special case out of him, and that he had been "tried in absentia by anonymous judges." Contending that the order "goes completely against the Vatican Council's statement...