Word: upheld
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...plea for executive clemency, Reagan said: "Here was a case in which every legal avenue had been tried-the U.S. Supreme Court twice, the California Supreme Court twice." Moreover, his predecessor, Governor Edmund Brown, had rejected clemency. Concluded Reagan: "The law is the law, and it must be upheld...
...resolution, however, drew a distinction between threatening to break the law and actually breaking it. In fact, the Republicans upheld the "We Won't Go' announcement as a legitimate expression of dissent...
...vote of 5 to 4, the Supreme Court last week upheld the conviction. When police claim that they have used a reliable informer, said Justice Potter Stewart, the Fourth Amendment does not require state judges to "assume the arresting officers are committing perjury." Justice William O. Douglas spoke for the dissenters, arguing that if the police need not identify informers, they become the "arbiters of probable cause." But the majority pointed out that a defendant is entitled to an informer's identity at the later trial if he needs it in order to rebut the charges. Besides, the anonymity...
...wanted the lists to see if the NAACP had violated its law requiring the registration of foreign corporations. While the Court found this motive insubstantial, it might take a different view of HUAC's desire to uncover subversive activity in student groups. In Bryant v. Zimmerman the Supreme Court upheld a disclosure of Ku Klux Klan membership lists because of the "particular character of the Klan's activities." Furthermore, in the NAACP case the Court believed that publication of membership rolls would "expose members to economic reprisal, loss of employment, threat of physical coercion, and other manifestations of public hostility...
Within the School, both students and some faculty members are now trying to implement a sweeping reassessment of the School. On Saturday, the Board of Governors upheld the supensions of Adelstein and Bloom and stated that no discussions could take place "under duress." The students replied by refusing to abandon the demonstration; they opened a debate on whether to continue the sit-in during the Easter vacation and to establish a "free university" with faculty...