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...persistent deputy marshal began stalking the Military Governor with a summons. Finally, after five days of hare-&-hounds, jaunty Lieut. General Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr. accepted service. When he failed to show up in Judge Metzger's court, he was fined $5,000 for contempt (ignoring the writ...
...Judge Metzger wanted the whole legal hog or none. He decided to make a test with an ancient civil weapon: the writ of habeas corpus. Two U.S. citizens of German ancestry had been held for months in an Army detention camp. Judge Metzger's writ ordered the Army to hand the prisoners over to the civil courts...
...Nellie" Richardson retaliated with a curt order: hereafter anyone who applies for, issues, serves, or accepts a plea for a writ of habeas corpus will be subject to a $5,000 fine, five years in jail, or both. This "anyone" obviously meant only one man: Judge Metzger, who was also warned to drop the contempt case forthwith...
...Louisville, Collector of Internal Revenue S. R. Glenn granted his writ ten request to himself for a 60-day extension to pay the first quarter of his income...
There was to be a by-election at Eddisbury. A routine but necessary preliminary was a motion in the House of Commons, authorizing the Speaker to issue a writ for the by-election. Last week, when this motion was put, Sir Richard Acland popped up and made Eddisbury's by-election a national topic...