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Jackson: The Supreme Court In The American System Of Government, Howard M. Downs S.Ed. Jan 1956

Jackson: The Supreme Court In The American System Of Government, Howard M. Downs S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Supreme Court in the American System of Government. By Robert H. Jackson

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Constitutional Law-Due Process-Validity Of State Statute Requiring Public Employees To Take Loyalty Oath, James W. Callison, S.Ed. May 1953

Constitutional Law-Due Process-Validity Of State Statute Requiring Public Employees To Take Loyalty Oath, James W. Callison, S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

A statute of Oklahoma required public employees to take an oath that, among other things, they were not, for five years previous had not been, and would not become, affiliated with an organization which advocated the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of Oklahoma by force or violence or other unlawful means or which had been determined by the United States Attorney General to be a Communist front or subversive organization. A citizen and taxpayer sought to enjoin payment of salaries to teachers at Oklahoma A. & M. College who had not taken the …

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Western Union Telegram To Mr. Virgil D. Hawkins, Registrar Sep 1951

Western Union Telegram To Mr. Virgil D. Hawkins, Registrar

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During his struggle to gain entry to the University of Florida College of Law, Mr. Hawkins never applied to Florida A & M for law school. Nevertheless, he was notified, by telegram, that his "application for admission" was approved and he was given instructions to register for classes for the fall semester, 1951.

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The Gerrymander And Judicial Abstention-An Important Distinction Between Political Questions And The Discretionary Power To Deny Equitable Relief Jan 1951

The Gerrymander And Judicial Abstention-An Important Distinction Between Political Questions And The Discretionary Power To Deny Equitable Relief

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Constitutional Law - Protection Of Freedom Of Speech Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Jack L. White Jun 1937

Constitutional Law - Protection Of Freedom Of Speech Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Jack L. White

Michigan Law Review

The appellant, a negro member of the Communist Party, was engaged in work as a paid party organizer in Atlanta in 1932. Shortly after leading a hunger march of unemployed he was arrested, and was tried and convicted under a state statute, enacted in the Reconstruction Period, which made criminal "any attempt, by persuasion or otherwise, to induce others to join in any combined resistance to the lawful' authority of the State." At the time of his arrest the appellant had in his possession evidence of his organization activities and also a quantity of party literature, but there was no …

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Constitutional Law - Validity Of Criminal Syndicalism Statute, Herman Jerome Bloom May 1937

Constitutional Law - Validity Of Criminal Syndicalism Statute, Herman Jerome Bloom

Michigan Law Review

The defendant was indicted for assisting in the conduct of a meeting which was called under the auspices of the Community Party, an organization advocating criminal syndicalism. The statute defined criminal syndicalism as "the doctrine which advocates crime, physical violence, sabotage, or any unlawful acts or methods as a means of accomplishing or effecting industrial or political change or revolution," and described a number of offenses, including the presiding at, or the assisting in, the conduct of a meeting of an organization advocating criminal syndicalism as defined in the act. The state court upheld the indictment under a construction of …

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