Word: writting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arbitrary Act? In time, the government returned to the Petaccis most of Clara's tangible assets, but the letters and diaries it claimed as documents of state. Writ followed court writ as the Petaccis tried to reclaim their property. Italy's best jurists pulled their chins over the puzzling problem of whether or not a dictator's mistress "carries out functions which can be compared to those of a public official." Last week the Petacci lawyers filed what they hoped was a final brief. "It is absurd," they said, "as argued by the state, that the loves...
There was no question that past Presidents, in time of crisis, have stretched their vaguely defined constitutional powers. When defense production was threatened in 1941, Franklin Roosevelt seized aircraft and shipbuilding companies. A famous example was Abraham Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in the Civil War. "My oath to preserve the Constitution," he explained later, "imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that Government, that Nation, of which the Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution...
...protest to this action, Billings decided to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. His efforts were unsuccessful...
...captain at the fort, realizing his plight, got copies of the briefs, which the lawyers had never even shown Billings. Finding the Army's case "shot full of holes," he decided to apply for a writ of certiorari that would bring the situation before the United States Supreme Court...
Last week, penniless and broken in health, Torino was still in the Salta jail; he has yet to be sentenced for anything. When his lawyer petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, the lawyer was thrown in jail for "disrespect." Torino's doctor, who got permission to move Torino to a Salta hospital for a hernia operation last month, also landed in jail. His offense: protesting when the authorities ordered Torino back to jail only four days after the operation. Peron even found a way to send El Intransigente to jail. By terms of his expropriation decree, the mechanical...