Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passport procedures (Kent v. Dulles) reflected views from the Yale Law Journal, and its 1963 support of court-appointed counsel for indigent defendants (Gideon v. Wainwrighf) cited an eloquent article in the Chicago Law Review. Chicago's Law Dean Phil C. Neal says flatly: "The preponderance of legal research originates in the law reviews...
...decision marked an advance for civil liberties. Before passage of the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932, federal judges often issued injunctions against strikes and other union activities, leveling harsh sentences for criminal contempt without calling upon the grand jury for an indictment or allowing trial by jury. This unusual legal power of both accusing and judging has a long common law tradition, although it is inconsistent with the whole grand jury and petit jury system. Now the court has at least ruled that trial without jury will be allowed only if punishment is commensurate with sentences for petty offenses...
...Negroes the advance in civil liberties will seem a set-back for civil rights; Ross Barnett is assured a light sentence. Long accustomed to legal inequities, Negroes will note with bitterness that this libeal shift came in the case of a Mississippi governor whose defiance of federal law led to two deaths and risked the lives of many others...
Viewing Mississippi as the central battlefield in the fight for equal rights, COFO aims at recruiting up to 2000 workers, mostly out-of-state students, for a many-faceted attack on the political, social and legal structures of the state...
...rather ambiguously, the Title cites the Fourteenth Amendment to outlaw any discrimination "enforced or supported by state action." The Supreme Court ruled in 1883 that this Amendment does not treat "private affairs," and it is doubtful that the Court would reverse itself. The commerce clause, however, provides sufficient legal grounds and its use will probably be upheld in court...