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...surprising that a book like Indian's Ex-Untouchables was not writ before, but it is not at all surprising that Harold Isaacs wrote it. Isaacs long been a careful observers of the an scene. As part of his inquiry in-what he calls "the interaction between political change and group identity," he has written four books, including this...
...spelled out. The Indian government has taken fairly substantial steps, including preferential hiring, to alleviate the lot of the ex-Untouchables. But as Isaac point out, anti-Negro discrimination is at variance with America's egalitarian ideology, while Untouchability in India is sanctioned by millenia of tradition, custom, holy writ and backwardness itself...
...protested, after a court had assigned a Legal Aid Society lawyer to handle his latest trial for burglary. "I want to act as my own attorney." The judge refused the request. Maldonado wound up in Sing Sing prison. But U.S District Judge Charles H. Tenney granted Maldonado a conditional writ of habeas corpus on the ground that "one of the most fundamental prerequisites of a fair trial is the right of the accused to defend himself either in person or by counsel of his own choosing." Failing the latter, said Tenney, a defendant's right...
When Fox refused, Smoot asked for a writ of prohibition from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. Fox argued in reply that the ladies had a free-speech right to clear their names, said he was convinced that Smoot had sued them as part of "a definite plan of harassment and punishment." Without a trial, said Fox, the league would be open to similar suits every time it spoke out. With a trial, the courts could attack a new libel issue-whether public commentators, like public officials, are subject to the rule of no recovery from critics except...
Second Chance. Amid these winds of change, Doyle eventually got his case before North Carolina's liberal U.S. District Judge James B. Craven by petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus. Stunned at the record, Craven suggested there was a violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment. Restricted by precedents, however, he simply ordered a new trial on the ground that Doyle had been unlawfully imprisoned because his court-appointed lawyer had had only a few hours to prepare a defense. In a scathing order, Craven told North Carolina that imprisoning rather than...