Word: trespasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DISCRIMINATION. Does it violate the Federal Constitution when state or local police powers are used to enforce race discrimination in privately owned public accommodations? The court will consider five related cases of civil rights demonstrators arrested on trespass charges at a restaurant and an amusement park in Maryland, lunch counters in South Carolina and Florida. Since a ban on discrimination in public accommodations is part of President Kennedy's pending civil rights bill, the court may sidestep the broad issue, overrule the trespass convictions on narrow grounds...
...football coach of trying to fix a Georgia-Alabama game. "Butts was just a symbol," said a juror later. The jury had settled on $3,000,000 in punitive damages, he said, as the proper way to implement the judge's charge to "deter the wrongdoer from repeating trespass." As for the $60,000 general damages, that was simply the jury's calculation of Butts's future earning capacity. "Butts is 58 years old. We figured his life span at twelve more years and agreed on $5,000 a year...
...park were Baltimore County Police Chief Robert J. Lally and a large contingent of cops. The demonstrators had previously warned the police of their intention to march on Gwynn Oak; the police, in turn, had warned the demonstrators that they would be arrested under Maryland's trespass...
Ugly Shouts. Moments after Blake and his group entered the grounds, a park owner stopped them, read the trespass law aloud. The marchers remained silent-but they did not leave the premises. Said Chief Lally: "You can leave or you can be arrested." Still the group was silent. Police moved in, placed them under arrest, led them politely to a waiting patrol wagon...
...Police arrested 123 Negro demonstrators as they marched through downtown Charleston. The Negroes had paraded every day for a week without incident. But this time, police said, they had blocked traffic and refused to obey orders to move on. Later 17 sit-in demonstrators were arrested and charged with trespass...