Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appealed his case to the AAUP and to the Advisory Committee on Faculty Personnel, a five-man board made up Tufts faculty members. The Tufts committee last week upheld the administration's decision by a 4-1 vote...
Prisons, scoffed Havemann, are "the university of crime," and the death penalty (abolished in West Germany) "is upheld only so that people can kill their political opponents." He laughed off the party's "pitiful" distortion of Hegel's dictum that freedom is the acceptance of necessity. Said Havemann: "One cannot attain freedom by doing 'voluntarily' what one must do in order to stay out of jail." As for capitalism, Havemann said that new traits make it "by no means all negative," and called for comparable Communist freedom to encourage "dissatisfaction with things as they...
...been 95 years since Iowa's Mrs. Arabella A. Mansfield hung out her shingle as the first licensed woman attorney in the U.S. In that same year, 1869, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Illinois State Bar's refusal to admit Mrs. Myra Bradwell with the observation that "the natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belong to the female sex evidently unfit it for many of the occupations of civil life." Today in the U.S., the woman lawyer lives and works in a society that has long since accepted a Myra Bradwell's right to practice...
...York blue-ribbon jury convicted two criminal defendants, their lawyers appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. They argued that since the panel was not a cross section of the community, the trial violated constitutional guarantees of a jury of one's peers. But the court (5-4) upheld the convictions...
...case that became a legal milestone, a ski-lift attendant failed to fasten the safety belt of a nine-year-old girl; she became hysterically frightened and displayed severe emotional symptoms. Explicitly overruling its earlier approach to "mere fright," the New York Court of Appeals in 1961 upheld an award for damages although the girl had suffered no physical harm whatever...