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...jeopardy case. Charged with bank robbery, Bartkus had been acquitted in a federal court-then convicted of the same crime in a state court. Fisher soon produced a highly impressive brief for Life Prisoner Bartkus. Reluctantly, the Supreme Court twice rejected his arguments on the grounds that Americans must obey both state and federal courts, but the Illinois legislature was so impressed that it passed laws preventing any repeat of the Bartkus case. In 1960 Fisher got the now wholly rehabilitated Bartkus a pardon-completing roughly $75,000 worth of free legal service. "This case," Fisher insisted, "is important...
...cirrhosis, and the pig-liver substitute worked well for only about six hours at a time, which was nowhere near long enough to let the patients' livers recover. But only two men failed to respond to the treatment, and five came out of their coma long enough to obey spoken commands. One asked for a cigarette on the operating table, and another was coherent for four days...
...professor persists. His lesson, a mixture of sophistry and flights of fancy, is incomprehensible. At last, in the climactic scene, he holds up an imaginary object and orders the girl to repeat "knife" in each of the Neo-Spanish idioms. But her pain has become unbearable, she cannot obey, and he stabs her to death with the invisible knife. His triumph is complete...
...which encompasses the southern half of the state. It has also been steadfastly segregated. But the Episcopal Church's Canon 16, as amended last October at the General Convention in St. Louis, bans the exclusion of any member from worship in any parish on racial grounds. Rather than obey the ruling, St. John's is leaving the Episcopal Church...
Businessmen usually obey the guidelines because they know that the FTC is tough to beat once it does go to court. The commission recently persuaded scores of sellers and advertisers to stop claiming falsely that products have been made by blind persons, exaggerating the profits that small investors can earn in Laundromat businesses, and enticing children to become salesmen by deceptive offers of "free" merchandise. Says Dixon: "I'm a great admirer of President Johnson's attitude of 'Come, let us reason together...