Word: upheld
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...Passed in 1958 and upheld by the state supreme court in its first test last week. Wrote Justice Aron Steuer: "Just because a man is a Negro, he is not, ipso facto, a desirable tenant. But the statute does not say that. It says the converse-because a man is a Negro he is not, ipso jacto, an undesirable tenant...
While the Southerners kept the Senate stalled on civil rights, the Supreme Court last week pressed forward the cause of Negro voting rights in the South. Unanimously overturning the ruling of a U.S. district court in Georgia, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the key section of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 which empowers the Justice Department to file civil suit on behalf of Negroes denied the right to vote by local officials...
...Washington Parish. Names of 85% of the parish's Negro voters, Louisiana-born Judge Wright found, had been "purged" by Citizens Council records ferrets for a variety of niggling reasons, but white voting records were virtually untouched. At the Justice Department's request, the court swiftly upheld Judge Wright's order, so that the Negroes might go back on the voting rolls before Louisiana's April 19 general election...
...often harassed management with slowdowns and other nuisance tactics to get better contracts. Three years ago, the National Labor Relations Board tried to ban such economic pressures, said they constituted a "lack of good faith" in collective bargaining. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously slapped down the NLRB, upheld the rights of the unions to pressure management...
...contract dispute with the Prudential Insurance Co. in 1956. The union did not call a strike, but urged its member-agents to snipe at the company by refusing to write any new business, work scheduled hours, or make required reports. Prudential filed an unfair labor practice charge that was upheld by the NLRB, but subsequently set aside by the U.S. Court of Appeals and appealed by the NLRB. In the meantime, Prudential reached an agreement with the union, signed a new contract which it renewed last September...