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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already pressing voter-registration suits against Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, the Justice Department last week set out for the first time to uphold the right of a Negro to vote in a local election. Moving under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the U.S. filed suit in Memphis federal court challenging a hoary custom of white Democrats in solidly Democratic Fayette County, Tenn.-the no-Negroes Democratic primary election conducted a year before each general election. Since in Fayette County the primary is the only real contest, the U.S. argued that Negroes are disfranchised by being barred...
...cardinal since the death of Charles Cardinal Erskine in 1811. "He may also," speculated the London Times, "be the first Oxford rowing Blue in the history of the Church to achieve the purple." Since 1927 Heard has served at the Vatican on the Sacred Roman Rota, the high ecclesiastical court that passes on applications for marriage annulments. The Vatican expects Pope John to make use of Monsignor Heard's legal abilities in preparing for the forthcoming Ecumenical Council...
...There may be reluctance to criticize the work of the Court for fear that any such criticism would be taken out of context by opponents of the segregation decisions and used to bring disrespect to the orderly process of constitutional adjudication," Clark Byse, professor of Law, declared in the December Law Review...
Byse was discussing a statement made by Henry M. Hart, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law, which deplored the inadequate tradition among law school faculties of "disinterested criticism" of the Court's decisions...
...this inadequacy, Byse felt, is the attitude of contemporary law schools. Such institutions should recognize two functions, he said. First, that of helping students develop their own critical capacities, but, second and just as important, that of exercising a professional responsibility by investigating and criticizing actions of the Court and interpretations of American...