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...federal court charging that County Jury Commissioner Bruce Crook, two associates, and Mrs. Kelley Coleman, clerk of the local circuit court (and Tom's cousin by marriage) had violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection and due process clauses. Last week the three-judge court in Montgomery upheld the Negroes' complaint, found Lowndes County guilty of "gross, systematic exclusion of members of the Negro race from jury duty." Though 80.7% of the county's 15,417 population is Negro, the court noted, "no Negro has ever served on a civil or criminal petit jury in Lowndes...
...split decision, a three-man fed eral court in Atlanta last week upheld the right of Georgia's legislators to refuse to seat Julian Bond, 26, a Negro civil rights worker who had publicly expressed admiration for the courage of draft-card burners and urged Americans to boycott the war in Viet Nam (TIME, Jan. 21). In the court's view, the Georgia house of representatives was justified in construing Bond's public statements as a denial of his lawmaker's oath to support the U.S. and state constitutions...
Verbal Spanking. Judge Saypol, who last year upheld the constitutionality of the Condon-Wadlin Act, solemnly warned the authority not to follow "any course which would increase the compensation of the strikers in violation of the law." In Saypol's opinion, the issue at stake is nothing less than the very preservation of the rule of law. If laws that are disliked can be violated with impunity, then anarchy prevails and "liberties become useless," said the judge...
...will recognize that although the Ivies have refused to file notices of compliance, Ivy standards generally comply with the NCAA minimum. If Barnes can work out an agreement to accept the Ivies without written compliance, both the Ivy institutional autonomy will remain intact, and the NCAA standards will be upheld. The NCAA's final decision will become apparent in early March when the Ivy basketball champion is scheduled to play in the Eastern regional playoffs...
...ruling had a special meaning for Attorney Hutt, who appeared as amicus curiae in support of North Carolina's Driver. Though he had started the whole thing, Hutt was disappointed when the conviction of his own client was upheld last month by the District of Columbia Circuit Court. Now he is almost positive that the North Carolina decision will be followed by the D.C. Circuit Court which has agreed to reconsider his appeal. If that happens, Hutt predicts, the eight other U.S. circuit courts will follow suit...