Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left sat counsel for the Little Rock school board, respondents. Near by, in traditional cutaway and striped trousers sat Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin, representing the U.S. as amicus curiae (friend of the court). The issue before the court, like all great issues, was basically simple: whether the rule of law or of violence should prevail at Little Rock's Central High School. The legal situation was more complicated. Last June Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley of Arkansas' Eastern District ordered a 2½-year breathing-spell delay in integration at Little Rock. Last month in St. Louis...
Last week LeRoy Collins again struck a statesmanlike pose, called for "bold, creative, constructive leadership"-and brought forth a scheme for nullifying the rule of law on civil rights issues. Collins urged the U.S. Congress, in its closing hours, to pass a "moratorium" law, forbidding U.S. courts to issue desegregation orders for the next six months. Collins could well afford to spend his time advising on national civil rights policy. He has no desegregation problem at home; there is not the slightest possibility that a Negro child will attend school with whites in Florida this year...
Waspishly worded split decisions, apparent encroachment on the legislative prerogative, political and sociological opinions applied to the rule of law in the land, have brought the Supreme Court of the U.S. under its heaviest fire since the New Deal days. Last week, from the annual conference of state chief justices, meeting in Pasadena, Calif., came the most meaningful criticism yet of the highest federal court...
...illiteracy, disease, violence -much has been accomplished. Considering the handicaps of 14 major languages and some 800 dialects, and the world's second largest supply of people (387 million), India is a model of governmental stability: since 1947, it has had the same Prime Minister, Nehru; the same ruling party, the Congress Party; the same governing philosophy, democratic socialism. Unlike most nations from the Mediterranean to the China Sea, India is not seriously threatened by a revolutionary group or a military clique. Communists rule one state, Kerala, but are having troubles there, and have made surprisingly little headway among...
...with the Golden Rule. In Hong Kong, detectives spotted Chiu Chun Kai piously walking about with a Bible in his hand, opened it, found seven packets of heroin hidden between its covers...