Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal sense, the court's decision merely reaffirmed a rule of 140 years' standing, holding that the Constitution's commerce clause gives Congress sweeping powers to regulate any activity that even remotely affects commerce among the states. But its potential impact upon U.S. race relations was nonetheless momentous. A Negro can now travel anywhere, stop at any hotel or cafe and be certain that the law, at least, insists that he be served...
After deciding that the public-accommodations section was constitutional, the Supreme Court turned to a less significant but more nettlesome legal problem: Could the thousands of sit-in demonstrators who had invaded the South's segregated lunch counters and been convicted under valid state antitrespass laws still be punished for acts that are now undeniably legal? The question split the court's earlier unanimity...
...newspapers are not without support in the legal profession. "My original view that pretrial publicity is generally harmful to our system of justice has withered away," said Claude R Sowle, associate dean of Northwestern University School of Law. "My basic confidence in the wisdom, effectiveness and good taste of a free press has grown considerably...
...would not ask the news media to change their practices until we in the legal profession admit that our own house is in need of cleaning," says James R. Thompson, assistant state's attorney for Cook County (Chicago), Laws prohibiting prejudicial pre-trial talk by court and law-enforcement officials are already on the books in 30 states, and these statutes reflect a 50-year-old canon of the American Bar Association. But the A.B.A. has never invoked its canon...
...flood of buy orders twice forced the Stock Exchange to delay Comsat's opening, and trading once had to be suspended for two hours. The Federal Communications Commission ordered an "informal" inquiry to make sure that in the speculative rush foreign ownership had not exceeded its 20% legal limit. The stock hit a record high of 66¼ after Comsat announced plans to start the first commercial service between North America and Europe next May with its "Early Bird" satellite. Wall Streeters were still flabbergasted. "It would have been unpatriotic to expect it to go down," said Merrill Lynch