Word: upheld
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Balanced Public Policy. In upholding her appeal from that decision last week, the New York Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that voiding past Mexican divorces would be a rank injustice. By a vote of 4 to 2, however, the court sharply split over future Mexican divorces. The majority upheld them on pragmatic grounds. Since the state of domicile is no longer truly relevant, ruled the majority, it makes no sense to insist that a one-day Mexican divorce is substantially different from a six-week Nevada divorce. In light of the hardships caused by New York's divorce laws...
...Supreme Court upheld two would-be Negro applicants and struck down Girard's color bar as a violation of the 14th Amendment guarantee against state-enforced racial discrimination. Loath to meddle with Girard's will, however, the Philadelphia Orphans Court merely substituted private for public trustees. Since the school was no longer a public agency, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal challenging the Orphans Court's action...
...years and a member of his local's executive board. In 1962 Brown was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison. He appealed, and last week, by a 5 to 4 decision in a session-ending spate of activity (see THE LAW), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld him. The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, declared that the Landrum-Griffin provision was a bill of attainder,* and therefore unconstitutional...
Judge Tuttle, chief judge of Atlanta's Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, has handed down decisions of the utmost importance for civil rights in the South. He was one of three judges who upheld the public accommodations section of the civil rights act of 1964 in its first court test...
...Eisenhower of Columbia, to examine the problem. The commission's conclusion was that "Communists should not be employed as teachers" because membership in the CP meant that they had surrendered their intellectual integrity. In a poll taken among Harvard Faculty members by the Crimson, this point of view was upheld, 218 to 108. Those critical of the commission report felt that a blanket rule should not be applied and that each individual should be judged separately according to his fitness to teach...