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...engaged in the unauthorized practice of law" has kept members of the Student Public Interest Law Group (SPIL) from aiding tenants before the Rent Board for almost a month, but Sacks said yesterday students would be permitted to resume their volunteer work on the cases, pending Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) review of the practice...
...Massachusetts State Guidelines for school integration were set down by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) in the 1971 Springfield Case. The Court ruled that no student may be bused out of his school district without his parent's consent. The court noted: "It would be possible to nullify the restriction simply by establishing gerrymandered or excessively large districts...
During the appeal, the SJC made remarks which seemed to criticize Sullivan for getting too involved in the specifics of the racial balance plan. (In the Springfield case the SJC had ruled that "although we will pass on questions of law related to the interpretation and enforcement of the statute (RIA), it is not appropriate for us to enter directly into the form of the racial balance plans.") Sullivan, feeling he was being undercut, decided to throw the decision to the SJC...
...December 28, in a surprise Christmas week sitting, the SJC agreed to review Sullivan's decision beginning February 8, If the SJC overturns Sullivan's decision, the assignment of children to specific schools within the districts will begin immediately and take effect in September...
...some distress at the spectacle, the Boston Bar Association petitioned the SJC to act. Last week the SJC met once again and decided once more not to commit itself. It did hint that if the Bar Association formally requested Troy's disbarment, somebody might then be willing to fire him. All of which left the militant members of The People First somewhat frustrated. "Just look," said Mrs. Finn. "Troy's still on the bench...