Word: trespassing
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...surging city, though in fact they often went bankrupt, and some of the towns themselves disappeared. Two San Francisco papers, the California Star and the Californian, folded overnight when the city was emptied by the 1848 gold rush. William J. Forbes, who published the Virginia City (Nev.) Daily Trespass, gave up in disgust. "Of 20 men," he said, "19 patronize the saloons and one the newspaper, and I am going with the crowd." He opened a saloon. But when he had built up a sufficient stake, he once again started a newspaper...
...Court implied that electronic eavesdropping is legal only when the device can be planted without committing a physical trespass. This rule was upheld by the Court in Silverman V. United States...
Klopfer, 36, of nearby Duke University, who had joined several other professors in a Chapel Hill restaurant demonstration. Two of the professors were beaten; all were arrested for criminal trespass (possible rap: two years). When Klop fer got a hung jury, Judge Raymond Mallard declared a mistrial. Subsequent ly, the "trespass" Supreme cases in Court light of tossed the out 1964 similar Civil Rights Act, which desegregated public accommodations. But Klopfer remained in jeopardy: 18 months after the indic ment, Judge Mallard allowed Solicitor Cooper to make use of a "nolle prosequi with leave," meaning the power to re instate...
...contrast, said Black, the Florida law's words, "malicious and mischievous," narrowed its scope to one offense: willful trespass. Not only were the students guilty of just that, he said, but there was "not a shred of evidence" that the sheriff objected to their protest for any reason other than his legitimate concern for jail security. "Nothing in the Constitution of the United States," said Black, "prevents Florida from evenhanded enforcement of its general trespass statute . . . The state, no less than a private owner of property, has power to preserve the property under its control...
Emphatic Rejection. Black's theory appalled his longtime libertarian colleague, Justice William O. Douglas, who spoke for three other dissenters (Warren, Brennan, Fortas) in blasting the court for inviting the use of trespass laws as "a blunderbuss to suppress civil rights." Not only was trespass being wrongfully applied to public property, argued Douglas, but custodians of such property were being given "awesome power to decide whose ideas may be expressed." Douglas called the decision "a wonderful police-state doctrine" that will "only increase the forces of frustration which the conditions of secondclass citizenship are generating amongst...