Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people whose private lives have been rudely invaded by the press or radio, journalism is simply bad taste in print or wired for sound. Can they do anything about it? Not much, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week. The court upheld dismissal of the suit of two sisters who had sued a Tuscaloosa radio station for digging up a story about their father's disappearance in 1905. "The right of privacy is supported by logic and the weight of authority," said the court, but in the face of "legitimate public interest" it has to give...
...devices. As medical knowledge increased and Victorianism waned, the law sank into oblivion. In 1938, however, when birth control clinics were flourishing throughout the Commonwealth, the old law was unexpectedly enforced when the Salem Clinic was raided by police and the doctors arrested. The Supreme Court of the Commonwealth upheld the police action followed by the closing of all the clinics. Thus Massachusetts became one of the two states in the Union where contraceptive advice is outlawed. In 1942 a bill sponsored by the Planned Parenthood League was introduced into the Legislature. Defeated there, it was placed before the voters...
Township bus case upheld the legality of parochial schools receiving public aid in such fields as transportation, textbooks and health services...
...because of his continuing war with AFRA (American Federation of Radio Artists). When he refused to pay a $1 assessment in 1944, arguing that it was for political purposes, AFRA forced DeMille from the air. Since a majority of the union membership had approved the assessment, the Supreme Court upheld AFRA. Armed with a new legal weapon-the Taft-Hartley Act Act-DeMille is confidently returning to the fray...
...because of his continued war with AFRA (American Federation of Radio Artists). When he refused to pay a $1 assesment in 1944, arguing that it was for political purposes. AFRA forced DeMille from the air. Since a majority of the union membership had approved the assesment, the Supreme Court upheld AFRA. Armed with a ew legal weapon-the Taft-Hartley Act-DeMille is confidentaly returning to the fray...