Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concerted Conspiracy. The second legal attack came before a three-judge panel of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, where a battery of civil rights lawyers attempted to invoke an 1866 Reconstruction statute empowering federal courts to appoint special U.S. commissioners to police areas where citizens are being denied their rights. Judge Mize had thrown the case out of his court last July, and the lawyers were appealing...
Mark De Wolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, will help recommend changes in the state's anti-discrimination commission and may go to Mississippi next summer to provide legal aid for people in the civil rights movement...
Howe said that although no definite arrangements have been made, he has offered to go to Mississippi to work for the Lawyers' Constitutional Defense Committee, one of three legal groups helping local Negroes and civil rights workers...
...hope it won't be necessary to send outside legal help into Mississippi again next summer," Howe said; "It's much better to find local lawyers to handle civil rights cases. But if this proves impossible I'm willing to go down and help in any way that...
Jones doggedly insisted that he was not even in Tennessee when Lee's father was killed. But as it turned out, both hunter and prey had bad legal luck. With the all-male jury reportedly ready to acquit Jones, the prosecution suddenly requested and won a mistrial on the ground that two jurors were relatives of two defense character witnesses. "It ain't fair to me," complained Jones, who may be retried in June. Vowed Lee: "This...