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  Federal Communications Commission: Control of "Deceptive Programming" 108 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 868 (April, 1960) In recent months the field of television broadcasting has been the subject of investigation conducted by the Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Specifically focusing on certain deceptive broadcasting practices first brought to light by disclosures of program contestants, the... 1960 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
Curtis R. Reitz Federal Habeas Corpus: Postconviction Remedy for State Prisoners 108 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 461 (February, 1960) Of all the many dark corners of the law, few are so dimly lit as is the federal habeas corpus jurisdiction under which federal courts pass upon the constitutional validity of state criminal prosecutions. Here many important developments are occurring, with all the hazards of walking in the dark. For several years there has been almost constant... 1960 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Gardner V. Vic Tanny Compton, Inc. 182 Cal.App.2d 506, District Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 3, California, Docket Number CIV. 24111 (7/7/1960) Action to recover damages for alleged violation of civil rights statutes. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Jerold E. Weil, J., rendered judgment adverse to plaintiff, and plaintiff appealed. The District Court of Appeal, Valleé, J., held that evidence sustained finding that defendant's symnasium was not a place of public accommodation... 1960 Cases    
  Goldsby V. State 240 Miss. 647, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 41547 (10/3/1960) Prosecution for murder. The Circuit Court, Hinds County, Henry L. Rogers, J., entered judgment of conviction and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Ethridge, J., held that where a federal court of appeals upheld a collateral attack upon a judgment of conviction following defendant's first state court trial, the decision of the court of appeals... 1960 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Goldsby V. State 240 Miss. 650, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 41547 (11/10/1960) Proceeding on petitions for stay of execution of death sentence pending petition to be filed in United States Supreme Court for writ of certiorari to review conviction for murder before the Circuit Court, Hinds County, Leon F. Hendrick and Henry L. Rogers, JJ., and for leave to appeal in forma pauperis. The Supreme Court, Ethridge, J., held that... 1960 Cases    
  Gomillion V. Lightfoot 364 U.S. 339, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 32 (11/14/1960) Action challenging validity of local act passed by Alabama legislature redefining city boundaries. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 167 F.Supp. 405, dismissed complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted and petitioners appealed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth... 1960 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Guyton V. Yancey 240 La. 794, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 44980 (12/12/1960) Action by homeowner in subdivision for injunction restraining another property owner in subdivision from committing a threatened violation of alleged building restriction. The First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo, rendered judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appealed. The Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, 115 So.2d 622, affirmed, and... 1960 Cases    
  Hannah V. Larche 363 U.S. 420, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 550, 549 (6/20/1960) Registrars of voters in the State of Louisiana and private citizens of Louisiana brought suits against members of the Civil Rights Commission to enjoin commission from holding its anticipated hearing, and in the suit by the registrars of voters it was contended that the Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional, and a three-judge court was convened. The... 1960 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Hardin V. State 232 Ark. 672, Supreme Court of Arkansas, Docket Number 4987 (10/31/1960) Defendant was convicted of concubinage. The Circuit Court, St. Francis County, Elmo Taylor, J., rendered judgment and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Johnson, J., held that sexual intercourse on one occasion, in absence of any indication that parties had lived together otherwise, did not constitute concubinage for purposes of... 1960 Cases    
  Hull V. Jackson 238 Miss. 870, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 41510 (5/30/1960) Proceeding to compel support of illegitimate child. The Circuit Court, Sunflower County, Arthur B. Clarke, Jr., J., rendered a judgment from which defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, McGehee, C. J., held that where, after birth of child and before institution of proceeding to compel support for illegitimate child, alleged husband had been within... 1960 Cases    
  In the Matter of Appeal of Welles Whitmore, Jr. Alameda, California PODBCA No. 7, P.S.B.C.A (10/13/1960)   1960 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  International Union of Elec., Radio and Mach. Workers, Afl-cio V. N. L. R. B. 289 F.2d 757, United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, Docket Number 15384 (6/30/1960) Proceeding on union's petition for review of National Labor Relations Board order. The Court of Appeals, Bazelon, Circuit Judge, held that where general counsel, which issued complaint on charge of unfair labor practices, refused to include a certain allegation, National Labor Relations Board could not entertain an amendment to the complaint to... 1960 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  International Union of Elec., Radio and Mach. Workers, Afl-cio V. N. L. R. B. 289 F.2d 757, United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, Docket Number 15384 (6/30/1960) Proceeding on union's petition for review of National Labor Relations Board order. The Court of Appeals, Bazelon, Circuit Judge, held that where general counsel, which issued complaint on... 1960 Trial Court Orders   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Kusior V. Silver 2 Cal.Rptr. 580, District Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 1, California, Docket Number 23654 (2/2/1960) Action to establish paternity and to provide for support of a child born nine days after entry of final decree of divorce wherein there was evidence that husband was not impotent and of cohabiting by husband and wife and that according to blood test father could not have been father of child but defendant was in class of persons who could have been... 1960 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Latham V. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 274 F.2d 507, United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit, Docket Number 25731, 66 (1/15/1960) Action against railroad for wrongful discharge from employment of the plaintiffs in alleged violation of the Railway Labor Act. From a partial summary judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, Harold P. Burke, Chief Judge, entered in compliance with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, rule 54(b), 28 U.S.C.A.... 1960 Cases    
  Moore V. Henslee 276 F.2d 876, United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit, Docket Number 16433, 16434 (3/29/1960) Habeas corpus proceeding challenging convictions for murder. From adverse judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, J. Smith Henley, J., the petitioners appealed. The Court of Appeals held that even if threats of mob violence rendering confession of one of defendants inadmissible was communicated to other... 1960 Cases    
  Motion for Leave to File Brief for the American Civil Liberties Union as Amicus Curiae and Brief Amicus Curiae, Gomillion V. Lightfoot Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 32 (10/10/1960) The American Civil Liberties Union, hereinafter called the Union respectfully moves for leave to file a brief amicus curiae in this case. The attorneys for petitioner have consented to... 1960 Briefs    
  Motion of the Franklin National Bank of Long Island for Leave to File Brief as Amicus Curiae and Brief as Amicus Curiae, Michigan Nat. Bank V. Michigan Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 155 (11/23/1960) THE FRANKLIN NATIONAL BANK OF LONG ISLAND, a national banking association, operating in the State of New York, respectfully moves this Court for leave to file the accompanying brief in this... 1960 Briefs    
  Mr. G. S. Porcher S.C.A.G (11/3/1960)   1960 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  People V. Sweeney 5 Cal.Rptr. 379, District Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 3, California, Docket Number 6824 (6/1/1960) Prosecution for giving away of narcotic and of offering and giving a bribe to deputy sheriff. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Bayard Rhone, J., entered judgment of conviction and order denying new trial and defendant appealed. The District Court of Appeal, Valleé, J., held that where affidavit of prejudice against trial judge set... 1960 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  People V. Sweeney 55 Cal.2d 27, Supreme Court of California, In Bank, Docket Number CR. 6708 (12/16/1960) Prosecution for giving away of narcotic and with giving a bribe to a deputy sheriff. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Bayard Rhone, J., entered judgment of conviction and defendant appealed from judgment and order denying motion for new trial. The Supreme Court, Dooling, J., held that trial court properly made a summary dismissal of... 1960 Cases    
Charles L. Black, Jr., Professor of Law, Yale University Race Relations and American Law 60 Columbia Law Review 566 (April, 1960) It is to be hoped that the New Higher Criticism of the Supreme Court will sometime hit a season when contemporary targets are unplentiful, and will so find leisure to give historic reach to the canon of its strictures. In case this happens, let me commend to the notice of the mandarinate a specimen that might, by its very purloinedletter... 1960 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
Richard C. Butler, Member of the Arkansas Bar Race Relations and American Law 60 Columbia Law Review 570 (April, 1960) To most active practitioners, the preparation of a text book is something to dream about, but seldom to accomplish. Those of us who spend our time delving into a diversity of legal problems for a variety of clients are unconsciously envious of those lawyers who arrange their time so as to produce a book and yet not neglect their practice. We expect... 1960 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
Major H. W. C. Furman Restrictions upon Use of the Army Imposed by the Posse Comitatus Act 7 Military Law Review 85 (January, 1960) As a result of a protracted struggle between a Republician President and a Democratic Congress over federal interference in elections in the South, the only legislation attempting to restrict the power of the President in the use of the national forces was passed. Congress limited the employment of the Army as a means of law enforcement in the Army... 1960 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Robinson V. City of Philadelphia 400 Pa. 80, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (5/23/1960) Taxpayer's suit in equity to enjoin a city, its department of public health, and board of trustees of its general hospital, from carrying out a contract with two universities related to the operation, management and control of the city's general hospital. The Court of Common Pleas, No. 5, Philadelphia County, June Term, 1959, No. 659, Eugene V.... 1960 Cases    
  Scholle V. Hare 360 Mich. 1, Supreme Court of Michigan, Docket Number 173 (6/6/1960) Original action of mandamus challenging amendments to the Michigan constitution. The Supreme Court held that state constitutional amendment establishing state senatorial districts with geographically described boundaries which were not subject to change because of fluctuation in population does not violate the equal rights and due process... 1960 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Seals V. State 271 Ala. 142, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 1 DIV. 810 (6/2/1960) Defendant was convicted of rape and from a judgment of the Circuit Court, Mobile County, Robert T. Ervin, Jr., J., the defendant appeals. The Supreme Court, Lawson, J., held that evidence on the question of identity of the defendant as perpetrator of the crime was properly submitted to the jury and that rulings on evidence were without error.... 1960 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Sealtest Southern Dairies 126 NLRB No. 139, N.L.R.B, Docket Number Cases Nos. 10-CA-3685, 10-CA- (3/23/1960)   1960 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  Sentencing Institute 27 Federal Rules Decisions 287 (7/8/1960) C1-2LIST OF PARTICIPANTS C1-2CHAIRMAN Hon. James M. Carter Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of California James V. Bennett, Esq. Director of Federal Prisons Hon. George H. Boldt Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Hon. Oliver Carter Judge, United States District Court for the... 1960 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Singelmann V. Davis 240 La. 929, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 45447 (12/15/1960) Certiorari to judge of Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Orleans to review his action granting a temporary restraining order enjoining, restraining and prohibiting the Governor and others from certain acts. The Supreme Court, Hamlin, J., held that statute creating school board for Parish of Orleans to consist of five members to... 1960 Cases    
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