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...himself as an important public personage in his own right. Now the Mooney lawyers had for the first time been able to put their case in full before the California Supreme Court. Acting on a suggestion from the U. S. Supreme Court when it refused to free their client, last winter, they were now asking California's highest bench, through a referee, for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Mooney was convicted on perjured testimony with the knowledge of the prosecution. Granting of such a writ would be tantamount to acquittal...
Many of the student cases involve claims of less than $50. The members of the staff endeavor to make a settlement but, if litigation is necessary, the client is referred to the Small Claims courts which are held in Massachusetts by every district court and which do not require the services of an attorney. The Court...
...left the hotel a newshawk spotted Mr. Hill telephoning in a booth. In full cry the pack swept across the lobby, carrying curious bystanders with them. The embarrassed lawyer retreated into the bar, where he accepted a contempt citation from Mr. Jurney, said he did not know where his client was but when they met would tell him that the Senate of the U. S. wanted...
...cheat the chair of their client, last week at Trenton Counsel Fisher & associates sought a new trial from the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Also on hand was Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the man who did more than any other to convict Hauptmann. In marked contrast to the scene at the trial court with its fetid air, crowded benches, hustling newsmen, was the great, placid, colonial chamber of the Court of Errors & Appeals, whose floor is carpeted in rich burgundy red, whose walls are filled with great legal tomes, whose broad windows look out upon the Delaware River...
Deep Dark River begins when Mary Winston, well-born Southern lady, only woman lawyer in Clarksville, Miss., accepts a routine case growing out of a shyster lawyer's theft of a Negro client's cow, is quickly involved in a complex and dangerous intrigue, uncovers a plot to hang an innocent and friendless Negro. Honest, stubborn, self-respecting, acutely conscious of her social and moral responsibilities, Mary has already made enemies by her interference with those who have lived by petty exploitation of Negro ignorance and fear, does not shrink from the more hazardous task of defending Mose...