Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spock and Ferber were acquitted be cause the Appeals Court ruled that the Government had simply not proved its case of conspiracy against them. Good man and Coffin were granted retrials on a legal technicality. But the First Amendment was held to be no bar to their prosecution for conspiracy...
...they see something coming they don't like, scream it's ole Strom Thurmond and Harry Dent." He insists that he serves only Richard Nixon, not Strom Thurmond, and that his real duties are mainly mundane matters of political coordination and patronage. One example: to steer Government legal work to Republican lawyers. "When I was practicing back in Columbia, I couldn't get diddly," he recalls. "Well, we're going to see that good Republicans around the country get some of that diddly...
...Critics. Wilkins argued that the N.A.A.C.P. is no less relevant today simply because many of its historic legal battles have been won. The organization is pressing ahead with its own housing program. It has also received a new federal grant of $173,760 to promote development of Negro-owned building-contracting firms. Wilkins pointed out that the N.A.A.C.P. has supplied legal aid to the very campus radicals who charge that the association has lost touch. Said Wilkins: "When they're in trouble, who in hell comes to their rescue but the good old N.A.A.C.P.?" Convention resolutions backed such traditional...
...Palmers accuse their first lawyer of "inexperience, incompetency and/or neglect" in defending them. Among other points, they charge that the attorney did not file essential pre-trial motions, took no exception to "prejudicial evidence" and failed to contest the composition of the jury. Backing the family in the legal battle is a Connecticut committee formed to "Remember the Palmers...
...attorney who successfully defended Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill before the Supreme Court, has offered what may be a classic definition: "Pornography is in the groin of the beholder." Though, as Rembar notes, there is virtually no such thing as obscenity in the literary legal lexicon today, the courts have insisted that minors should be protected from exposure to prurient material. And by federal law an individual may take action to prevent receipt of unsolicited pornography through the mail...