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Constitutional Law-Freedom Of Assembly-Equal Protection Of The Law, S. I. Shuman

Michigan Law Review

The ordinance here involved prohibited any person from addressing a political or religious meeting in any public park. At a meeting involving no disturbances or breaches of the peace, plaintiff, a Jehovah's Witness, was arrested when he addressed a meeting in a public park. The state supreme court upheld a conviction under the ordinance. Held, reversed. The principal case is on all fours with Niemotko v. Maryland. The state conceded at oral argument that the meeting was a religious one and that the ordinance as construed and applied did not prohibit church services in the park. Therefore, since …

Gill V. Hearst Pub. Co. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Court reversed judgment that sustained defendant's demurrer without leave to amend complaint in action for damages for invasion of privacy because trial court abused its discretion when it failed to allow plaintiff's complaint to be amended.

Clandestine Speech And The First Amendment, Wallace Mendelson

Michigan Law Review

In a comment" written at the conclusion of the Communist leaders' trial Professor Nathanson noted that Judge Medina's instructions required for a verdict of guilty that the jury "find only that the defendants intended to accomplish the overthrow of government 'as speedily as circumstances would permit it to be achieved.' " This, wrote Professor Nathanson, was "inconsistent with the clear-and-present-danger test as formulated by Holmes and Brandeis, unless there were other circumstances in the facts actually presented which made that test inapplicable." A major part of the balance of the comment is an attempt to refute a suggestion that clandestine, …

Book Reviews, Reginald C. Harmon (Reviewer), A. B. Butts (Reviewer), Rollin M. Perkins (Reviewer), Stanley D. Rose (Reviewer), Charles H. Livengood, Jr. (Reviewer), Keith W. Blinn (Reviewer)

Vanderbilt Law Review

Military Justice under the Uniform Code

By James Snedeker

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. $15.00.

reviewer: Reginald C. Harmon

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Conscription of Conscience

By Mulford Q. Sibley and Philip E. Jacob

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952. Pp. x, 580. $6.50.

reviewer: A. B. Butts

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Theft, Law and Society

By Jerome Hall

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. Second Edition, 1952. Pp. xxiv, 398. $10.00.

reviewer: Rollin M. Perkins

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Freedom of the Press in England 1476-1776

By Fredrick S. Siebert

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1952. Pp. xiv, 411. $7.50.

reviewer: Stanley D. Rose

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Wage-Hour Law: Coverage

By Heiman …

Right Of Privacy Vs. Free Press: Suggested Resolution Of Conflicting Values

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Torts-Libel And Slander-Absolute Privilege To Press Releases Of Executive Officials, Constantine D. Kasson

Michigan Law Review

Defendant, Attorney General for the state of Pennsylvania, wrote a letter to a District Attorney demanding the dismissal of the plaintiff, an Assistant District Attorney, because of the plaintiff's alleged communistic activities and associations, information of which had been brought to the attention of the defendant by the State Police. Before delivery of the letter to the District Attorney, the defendant released it to the newspapers. Plaintiff brought a libel action alleging the statements to be false and maliciously made. The defendant demurred and the court sustained. On appeal, held, affirmed. Although the defendant himself has no power to …

Freedom Of Speech--Group Libel--Beauharnais V. People Of State Of Illinois, Thomas P. Lewis

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.