Word: upheld
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...drunk with the argument that alcoholism is a disease, not a crime (TIME, Nov. 27), and they decided to do the same for Driver. They took their case to the federal courts, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision that promises to echo across the U.S., upheld their argument. "The alcoholic's presence in public is not his act," argued Judge Albert Bryan. "It may be likened to the movement of an imbecile, or a person in a delirium. The upshot of our decision is that the state cannot stamp an unpretending chronic alcoholic...
...illiberal laws than anyone else on his court, with the possible exception of Brandeis. It is Frankfurter, on the other hand, who did the damage. He served in a period when upholding progressive economic laws was no longer a question, but upholding deprivations of political rights was. His vote upheld a number of these (some of which were five to four decisions) and, unlike Holmes, he stood close to the right wing of his Court on civil liberties questions...
...year's imprisonment, federal employees are forbidden even to belong to a union that advocates strikes; other bans against public-employee strikes are on the books in eleven states, ranging from New York to Hawaii. And even without specific laws, the country's courts have almost universally upheld Government authority and enjoined public-employees' strikes throughout U.S. history...
...crimes to which he might admit complicity. But Giancana, the syndicate's top man in Chicago, still refused to talk. Since he was thus in no danger of incriminating himself, a federal judge ruled that Sam was in contempt of court. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that ruling, in effect consigning him to his cell for as long as he chooses to say no-and the law's delay may last longer than the pangs of dispriz'd love...
...until 1727 was it made punishable under English common law; not until 1 957 did the U.S. Supreme Court hold that it was not covered by the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and press. But even in that decision (Roth v. U.S.), which upheld a federal obscenity statute, the court was clearly unclear about the "dim and uncertain" line between obscenity and protected expression. Painfully, the court decreed three tests...