Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...names of the Eight will be turned over to the U. S. Attorney's Office in Boston, which will then decide whether to issue a warrant, the agent said, "Then we can pick them...
...Associated Press reported last night that Attorney General John N. Mitchell released a statement accusing the New Mobilization Committee of failing to listen to Justice Department warnings of potential violence...
Following Spock's speech, the protestors marched to the 10th street entrance of the Justice Department building. A delegation of lawyers who wanted to present a statement to Attorney General John Mitchell, asking him to end the trial, was denied entrance...
Rules of the Game. At week's end an attorney dispatched by Garry filed a notice of appeal on the contempt charges. Denying a request for bail, Hoffman asserted that the defendant "seeks to destroy the American judicial system." If nothing else, Scale's collision with the judge illustrates a key weakness in U.S. legal process. "This shows that the fragile legal system functions only if everyone is willing to some extent to play the game by the rules," says Professor Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan Law School. Believing that the game was unjust, Scale refused...
Died. Thurman W. Arnold, 78, eminent Washington lawyer and onetime New Deal trustbuster; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Va. As an Assistant Attorney General from 1938 to 1943, Arnold initiated more antitrust suits (230) than any other individual in the history of the Sherman Antitrust Act, winning major decisions against the American Medical Association, Standard Oil of New Jersey and the Associated Press. He was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1943 but quit two years later to establish his own firm with Paul Porter and Abe Fortas; generous and liberal...