Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately for Mrs. Kathleen Busick of Milwaukee, she set something of a legal precedent as she inched her family's brand-new Chevrolet cautiously along an icy street. She braked to a stop behind a bus; Electrical Engineer Bruno R. Budner's car skidded into hers from the rear. Claiming assorted injuries as a result of the collision, Mrs. Busick sued Budner...
Judge Irving R. Kaufman traced the euphemism to the Public Health Service, which devised it as an admittedly "vague and indefinite" rubric covering Congress' intent to bar "homosexuals and other sex perverts." However medically imprecise, said Kaufman, the phrase became "a legal term of art" that clearly barred Boutilier as "a homosexual long before leaving Canada," and authorized his deportation even if he had lived "a life of impeccable morality" in the U.S. Ruled Kaufman: "It is not our function to sit in judgment on Congress' wisdom in enacting the law." In dissent, Judge Leonard P. Moore called...
...Dirty Trick. His eye soon lit on Tillinghast, then vice president for international operations of the Bendix Corp., Detroit-based maker of aviation, missile and auto components. Breech, as a former Bendix president, had been so impressed with Tillinghast's legal work for the firm that years earlier he had persuaded him to move to Detroit, where Tillinghast subsequently joined the company...
...biggest legal milestone in this field was last year's Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, which overthrew the state's law against the use of contraceptives as an invasion of marital privacy, and for the first time declared the "right of privacy" to be derived from the Constitution itself. Justice Douglas argued that "specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras formed by emanations from those guarantees. Various guarantees create zones of privacy." Such zones, he argued, emanate from the First Amendment's right of association, and the Fourth's guarantee against "unreasonable...
...only in the legal but in the social context, privacy is a relatively new value (and is still rare in much of the non-Western world, which either does not appreciate it or cannot afford it). One Greek word for a private person was "idiot," which, then as now, carried implications of ignorance -or at least a large indifference to civic concern. The tribe knew no privacy, and even the lord of the feudal manor lived in a swarm of servants, children and relatives, often all of them sleeping around the edges of the big hall where the fireplace...