Word: schirick
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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Last week, after test cases brought by the Communist Party and a teachers' group, State Supreme Court Justice Harry E. Schirick declared the law a bill of attainder (i.e., a legislative act that punishes without trial) and therefore unconstitutional. In its vagueness, said Schirick, the act was a "dragnet which may enmesh anyone who agitates for a change of Government...
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