Word: legally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith refused to accept his rejection, regarding himself as an agent of his State, duty-bound to fight out an issue between Illinois and the U. S. Senate. Governor Small of Illinois refused to appoint a successor to Smith, lest the "vacancy" be thus admitted by Illinois to be legal. The Illinois decision last week was to re-elect Smith, if possible, next autumn rather than go to court against the Senate at once...
...history of English legal polity is replete with prosecutions, in all of which the picture of a tyrannical and brutal trial judge occupies the most lurid position in the public mind. Especially the prosecutions in Ireland toward the close of the eighteenth century at the crucial stage of the American legal system threw its dark cloud upon the young nation looking for guidance. Consequently, in view of the abominations perpetrated under the name of the common law judges of Great Britain and the popular prejudice of the times against them, it is small wonder that the American attitude of regarding...
Twelve harassed Sicilians wrangled for 72 hours, last week at Termini Imerese, weighing the testimony of 500 witnesses, digesting a judge's charge which covered 6,000 legal points. The jurors finally delivered a blanket verdict: "Guilty...
...interesting to learn that the case of John B. Nemo, an Italian, the legality of whose projected deportation was argued last night in the final round of the Ames Competition is no theoretical dilemma, propounded by professors, but a case now before the Supreme Court of the United States for review, in the original, Mr. Nemo is a Chinese named Bee who registered for the Draft, and was thereupon arrested under the Chinese Exclusion Act for being unlawfully in this country. His rights were upheld by three Boston lawyers in the lower courts for years of bitter litigation. So many...
...hard to understand why such an actual problem of outstanding legal importance was chosen in the school where the case system was first developed for the teaching of law. The brilliant results that are now predicated with such methods are fully attested by the attention experienced lawyers give a straw trial argued by students in the Harvard Law School. Whatever may be the ever increasing allegations of the impracticality of the colleges, the methods of the graduate schools, and even more, the desire of leading firms to secure the alumni, make such charges against them impossible. And the fact that...