Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, nearly a dozen white legislators signed petitions to deny him his seat, some charging him with treason. Bond's lawyers promptly filed suit in federal court to force the house to reverse its decision and seat him. At week's end, 1,000 demonstrators marched on the state capitol in Atlanta to protest his ouster...
Having assumed jurisdiction, the Court must then address itself to the merits of the case. Bond alleges he has been deprived of his right of free speech assured by the 1st Amendment. The suit argues: "Had a member of the Ku Klux Klan or the John Birch Society or the White Citizens Council spoken against Federal policy he would have been cheered." Punishing Bond for exercising his right to speak out on U.S. foreign policy or to admire the courage of anyone for any reason does indeed violate the letter and spirit of the Constitution...
...petition goes on to test the alleged denial of the 5th, 6th, and 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. The 5th and 6th Amendments guarantee the right to be indicted by a grand jury and the right of being tried by an impartial jury. The 13th, 14th and 15th, the suit claims, make it a violation of the Constitution to "pin a badge of inferiority" on Bond as a Negro...
...genteel arrangement whereby it drew the task of moving first, Union had decided on a price hike. Within two days, companies in two other large copper-producing countries, Chile (560,000 tons annually) and Zambia (750,000 tons annually) upped their price to 42? also. Smaller copper countries followed suit, and last week the 40 increase had settled fitfully on the copper industry...
...wedding next day was a simple civil ceremony in the Fifth Avenue apartment of Mother Anne. The bride wore a knee-length white silk gabardine dress and a small matching open pillbox headpiece on her shoulder-length blonde hair. Uzielli was dapper but informal in a cuffless grey worsted suit and silver silk tie. With just 15 members of the families looking on, the vows took precisely ten minutes. Said Judge Frederick Strong, who performed the ceremony: "It was just a little longer, a little more elaborate and, I hope, a little more meaningful than one in the city clerk...