Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maryland case, the court declared by a 6-to-2 vote that the Fifth Amendment guarantee against double jeopardy applies to the states. In so ruling, the court upheld John Dalmer Benton, who had been convicted of burglary and acquitted of a larceny charge at one trial. Benton had sought a new trial on the burglary charge, but instead was retried-and convicted-on both charges. > In a California decision, the I. most important of the three, the court reversed the conviction of a numismatist named Ted Chimel, who was sentenced to prison in 1966 for stealing rare coins. When...
...also went to court to argue that the regulations violated not only the Federal Communications Act but also First Amendment guarantees of free speech. Broadcasters, they said, would grow chary of controversy if they had to worry about a toughened fairness doctrine. In a unanimous opinion, the high court upheld the FCC in both cases. A license does not mean ownership of the air, said the court, "only the temporary privilege" of using it. Since the air actually belongs to the public, said the court, the FCC's fair play rules increase rather than curtail the scope of free...
...Upheld Obscenity. Two conservative Republican Senators, Paul Fannin of Arizona and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, launched their own attacks last week on the liberal maverick who has sat on the high bench for 30 of his 70 years. Fannin noted solemnly that Douglas had written an article on folk singing for Avant Garde magazine after the Supreme Court upheld an obscenity conviction against its publisher, Ralph Ginzburg. Douglas, who collected only $350 for the piece, was one of four dissenters to the decision. Declared Thurmond: "Justice Douglas is the next one who must...
...poor are being shortchanged," says Albert. "Then we search for a plaintiff to represent." The organization has been responsible, in whole or in part, for the spate of recent Supreme Court rulings that have broadened the rights of welfare recipients. In 1966 the high court upheld a decision prohibiting Georgia from denying relief benefits to mothers whom the state deemed able to work. Other cases included a landmark decision against Alabama, which had sought to end payments to mothers either widowed or estranged from their husbands if the women were "cohabiting" with other men. To Alabama authorities, the men were...
...KPFA ("Your listener-nonsupported station") hopes to raise $75,000 in a "May Day" fund drive. KPFK paid only five of its twelve employees last week. Still, Pacifica officials believe their stations will be able to continue assaulting the airwaves. After considering dozens of listener complaints, the FCC recently upheld Manhattan's WBAI. "The opinions and views of others may startle, shock and even offend," said the FCC. "But the drafters of the Constitution believed that no man has a monopoly on truth...