Word: moot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more clods of earth fell into the incredibility gap this week when the lad from the Pedernales insisted that American success in Vietnam will "lead to a free Asia--and a more secure America." It is a moot point, of course, whether Asians have more freedom amidst Yankee gunfire or Oriental Communism...
...hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee were something less than the constitutional debate they set out to be. Mired from the outset in moot legalistic questions, the sessions became instead an outlet for the unease and bitterness with which most committee members-liberals and conservatives alike-view Lyndon Johnson's management...
...These moot test cases tear CLAO between the interests of its present client and the ultimate interests of the poor. An out-of-court settlement would satisfy the client, but a court-established precedent would aid CLAO and other agencies to combat the accused practices in the future. So far, CLAO has always deferred to the client's wishes to accept the settlements offered...
...class. In 1959 he ranked fifth among 2,000 applicants to Athens University's law school, won a scholarship as the first blind student ever admitted. After three years' required apprenticeship in an Athens law office, he capped his bar exam by successfully arguing a moot case before a panel that included Greek Supreme Court justices...
Chicago Criminal Court Judge Maurice Lee was getting nothing but moot replies in Spanish from two Puerto Rican complainants in a disorderly-conduct case. Was there an interpreter in the house? Up stepped Danny Escobedo, 29 (TIME Cover, April 29), who has been kindly disposed toward the law ever since 1964's Supreme Court decision in Escobedo v. Illinois, voiding his murder confession on grounds that he was denied his rights to counsel. Since his parents are Mexican, Escobedo was sworn in as an interpreter and translated the Puerto Ricans' side of the case. A few minutes later...