Bar backs law permitting removal of U S judges
The American Bar Association endorsed in principle the Judicial Reform Act to create a five judge commission to investigate federal judge misconduct or disability. The panel would report to the Judicial Conference and allow Supreme Court review, with chief justice appointing members. The ABA also named Leon Jaworski president elect for 1971 and rejected a Nixon administration plea against a genocide treaty.
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Atlanta
American Bar Association
ABA
House of Delegates
Joseph Tydings
D-Md
Senate
Tydings
Judicial Reform Act
Judicial Conference of the United States
U.S. Supreme Court
United States
Leon Jawor
Ski
Houston
National Commission On the Causes and Prevention of Violence
Association
Edward L. Wright
Little Rock
Ark
Nixon
Supreme Court backs FCC pay TV authority ruling
The Supreme Court let stand a federal appeals court ruling upholding the FCC's power to authorize over the air television and to set selling rules for the new service. The National Association of Theater Owners and an anti pay TV group challenged the agency's authority and alleged discrimination against the poor and a free speech violation. The DC Circuit held the FCC acted within its licensing power and properly regulated pay television, finding full consideration of impacts on low income viewers and free TV with potential public benefit.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
National Association of Theater Owners
U.S. Circuit Court For
District of Columbia
Appeals
PCC
Court Allows Va to Start Poor Schools
Supreme Court rules 6 to 2 that Virginia may spend less on educating poor children than wealthier districts. The decision upholds a federal ruling and cites Bath County as among the nation’s poorer areas, where most tax revenue funds schools. The ruling touches on Virginia's supplementary system and indicates hearings on related welfare cases will occur next fall.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Harrisonburg
Ratt County
Virginia
National Eucational Association
AVE
Urban Coalusion
Teamsey Clark
High Court
William C. Douglas
Byron R. White
Bath County
Bath
Homestead
Apytal
New York State
Louis J. Lefkowitz
New York City
New York
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Pennsylvania
Eight Protesters Lose Appeals In Draft Raid
The Supreme Court rejected the appeals of eight antiwar protesters convicted of burning selective service files in Catonsville Maryland in 1968. Also rejected were the separate appeals of Rev Philip Berrigan and Thomas Lewis who poured blood into files in 1957. Among the eight are Thomas Melville and his wife Marjorie Melville both former Maryknoll missionaries. Sentences ranged from 2 years to 344 years. The court upheld the lower court ruling that they cannot prove good faith belief in the immorality or illegality of the Vietnam War at trial.
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Supreme Court
Catonsville
Philip Berrigan
Thomas Lewis
Thomas Melville
Newton
Mass
Maryknoll
Central America
Marjorie Melville
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