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...allegedly unconstitutional. Justice Hugo Black spoke for the majority in barring federal interference in state criminal trials except in cases of a prosecutor's bad faith or harassment, or when a state law is "flagrantly and patently violative of express constitutional prohibitions in every clause, sentence and paragraph." The ruling overturned a federal court victory for black militants in California. It was accompanied by related decisions that cleared the way for state obscenity prosecutions in three other states and the prosecution of black protesters in New York and Illinois...
...committee can also consider alleged violations of the third paragraph of the University-wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities, which protects "freedom of speech and academic freedom, freedom from personal force and violence, and freedom of movement...
...report, the Committee on Governance specified that the committee could not judge charges resulting from the Statement's second paragraph-which protects the rights to "organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate and publicize opinion by print, sign, and voice"-if they are not subsumed by the freedoms of the third paragraph...
...Explaining this distinction, Clark Byse, professor of Law and one of the drafters of the document, said, "If an administrator had to hold for a free and open university, he might easily be accused of violating the Statement. With paragraph three, a student filing charges would have to show a definite violation of academic freedom...
...movie. I had a fight with a friend about this-he said that it would ruin the film to know about the end; I thought it was important enough to the whole structure of the film to talk about. So: skip the rest of this paragraph if you've never forgiven Fred for telling you that the butler did do it.] The film ends, fades to black, and credits appear: David Holzman is played by L. M. Kit Carson; the filmmaker is Jim McBride. What we thought was documentary was the cruelest of lies, for even here screenplay has been...