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The article reports on a federal lawsuit filed by users of the Llano County Library System in Texas against county commissioners, members of the reconstituted library board, and the library director. Topics discussed include a preliminary injunction sought in the lawsuit, books involved in the lawsuit, and reason that the books were systematically removed from the library collection according to the plaintiffs.

Provides information on the efforts of activists in Great Britain to trash away genetically modified crops in their country. Purpose of the activists for trashing the crops; Decision of the court in the cases filed against other activists destroying genetically modified crops within a private property; Reasons of the British people for doubting genetic engineering. INSET: A few Crop-trashing tips.

Presents the text of a speech by J. Harvie Wilkinson of the International U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, on the use of international law in the U.S. justice system. Changes in the use of international law and judicial opinions in cases; Views on the American constitution; Overview of several legal cases.

Presents a speech by Steven B. Hantler, assistant general counselor at DaimlerChrysler, delivered to the Republican Attorneys General Association Summer Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 2, 2003. Myths about class-action lawsuits; Ways the impact of lawsuits can be measured; Reason for the revision of U.S. class action law in 1966.

In September 1998, two men named John Lawrence and Tyron Garner were arrested while having sex in Lawrence's home in Houston, Texas. Their charge was sodomy. The two men later challenged the constitutionality of their conviction in the Texas Court of Appeals and in the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals, claiming it violated their rights to privacy and to equal protection of the laws. The correct definition of sodomy--then and now--is simply non-procreative sex, whether practiced by heterosexuals or homosexuals. It includes oral sex, masturbation, mutual masturbation, contraceptive sex, coitus interruptus, and anal sex--any sex in which semen does not find its way into a uterus.

Gives advice on how to use the law against companies that exploit the community and the environment. Importance of information in any legal action; How to force government agencies and private companies to comply with regulations; Approaches to lawsuits.

Offers a look at the allegations against Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, that he masterminded a conspiracy to kill off a rival company with the use of his monopoly control over the world's computers as weapon. Possible consequence of the Microsoft trial; Concerns of the U.S. government on the nature of the information highway; Information on the lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Intel, the principal partner of Microsoft in the personal computer revolution.

Discusses the lawsuit filed by physician Jeffrey MacDonald against the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1997. Background of the massacre case against MacDonald in 1979; Flaws in the practices of the crime laboratory of the agency; Allegations against the manipulation of the forensic evidence of the clients by the agency.

Describes the controversy associated with the publication of the book "Katharine the Great," by Deborah Davis. Problems faced in the publication of the book; Censorship problems with the book; Amount of compensation demanded by Davis in a lawsuit filed by her against the publishing company Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

Presents several editorials which discuss different subjects. "Infanticide," which discussed the decision reached by the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down major provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974; "Find (?) Questions on Moynihan," which discussed the politics of New York political Daniel Moynihan; "Nixon's Booby Trap," which discussed a proposed bill being considered by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee which would revise the federal criminal code; "Men of Courage," which discussed the resignation of three engineers from the reactor division of General Electric; "Today's Return," which discussed the growing disarray of American foreign policy; "Night Work," which discussed the special services and clandestine operations of the U.S. CIA; "Backward Steps," which discussed the death of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board.

The article throws light on the case of Tobacco Trust. It is still far too early to predict with any confidence what will be the full result of all this activity, administrative and judicial but there is one tendency which is becoming more and more manifest, and which historical experience gives reason to believe will have abiding and far-reaching results. The great problem of the courts is to supply, by the establishment of precedents and by the comment accompanying their decisions, what the written law lacks in definiteness.

Presents several political and socio-economic issues affecting the U.S. Policy of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon to promote tax reduction on large incomes; Assumption of economists that the difficulty of transferring of huge sums of payments might depress the German exchange rate; Controversy over the investments of American investors to Germany under the Dawes settlement and the Allied governments with a primary interest in reparations; Jockeying for position of Liberal and Conservative party leaders of Nicaragua for the all-important favor of the U.S. State Department for the Nicaraguan presidential campaign; Trial of Chicago school superintendent William McAndrew; Facts and information the case of McAndrew; Settlement of the coal strike in Illinois, Indiana, and five southwestern states; Reaction to the new child labor program of the National Association of Manufacturers; Appeal to Governor Roland Hartley (R-Was) to help restore a boy Russel Tremaine to his parent's custody after forcibly taken from the parents by order of a court in Washington; Finalization of the agreement between the states bordering the Colorado River on the construction of the Boulder Dam; Recommendation of transportation authorities of New York City to return to its regular rapid transit lines fare.

Presents several political and socio-economic issues affecting the U.S. Debates in the Senate on several bills to be pass including the Alien Property Bill and the Second Deficiency Bill; Deliberations between Senators James A. Reed (D-Miss) and David A. Reed (R-Penn) over the investigation of primary frauds in the Pennsylvania; Argument between Senators James A. Reed (D-Miss) and William E. Borah (R-Ill) on the opposition of Borah to the U.S. entry into the World Court; Foreign policies of the U.S. in China, Mexico, and Nicaragua; Decision of the Supreme Court on the unconstitutionality of the Texas law that prohibits blacks from voting in the Democratic primaries; Introduction of a resolution in the New York State Legislature calling for a national constitutional convention for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment; Policies of New York Governor Alfred E. Smith on the water utilities issue; Decision of the court in the second trial of former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty and former Alien Property Custodian Thomas W. Miller; Despite warnings from building financiers, new construction of buildings has been made in the North Atlantic and Southeastern Regions; Decline of the British birth rate; Sample of a comparative impartial test kind of advertisement; Scheme of architect Bob Lafferty for frenzied transportation to solve the traffic problem in New York.

Discusses the verdict of the conspiracy case to defraud the U.S. government by the grand jury of the District of Columbia on former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall and oil prospector Edward L. Doherty. Acquittal of Doheny, and pending charges still await on the case of Fall and oil prospector Harry Sinclair; Facts and the case; Contract signed by the Doherty-owned Pan-American Petroleum Co. with the Department of Navy for a preferential business lease of oil reserves; Basis of the court for the decision.

The article presents political news around the world. The report of the Committee of the State Senate on Trusts has a twofold aspect. The conclusions reached by the majority are clearly justified. They are not different from those of the minority. Both agree that at present no legislation on the subject is desirable or practicable. Both point to the decision of Judge Barrett in the case of the North River Sugar-Refining Company, now under review in the Court of Appeals, as a proper resting-place for the time being. The opinion expressed by the Americans some time since that the appointment of Robert P. Porter to the Superintendency of the Census was in the nature of a public calamity, has since found confirmation in a general concurrence of the most intelligent sentiment of the country and also in the unconcealed rejoicing on the part of the representatives of the most extreme tariff fanatics.

This article presents information regarding the political and economic developments in the U.S. The Chamber of Commerce last week discussed the pending strikes, but without any better result than a reference of the whole subject to the Executive Committee, with rower to call a public meeting or take such action as might seem best. The discussion which preceded this rather lame conclusion was marked by the vagueness which characterizes the utterances of nearly everybody who opens his mouth about the labor question. A new coupon case which has just been decided in favor of Virginia by its Supreme Court of Appeals, is, of course, magnified by the repudiators into a great victory, although, in fact, it is much more like one of those successful skirmishes which sometimes brighten, to an inordinate degree, the spirits of an army in full retreat.

This article presents information on two persons, with same name Roy Marcus Cohn, who were seen at the hearing of the trial going on between U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and the U.S. Army. Both of them had the same background, the same appearance, and the same name. But apparently they had never met. There was Roy Cohn, the Boy Rasputin, whom several witnesses for the Army testified they knew well. He had cursed John Adams and Senator McCarthy too, and according to Adams, he had forced the break with McCarthy beyond the point of no return. There was also Roy Cohn, the Young Crusader--a very different individual. Roy Cohn was an excellent witness--eloquent, confident, fast beyond belief, with an answer to every question.

The article presents information on various socio-political issues from various parts of the U.S. The Kentucky Court of Appeals have reversed a decision of the Louisville Chancery Court, by which the appellant was required to accept Treasury notes in discharge contract for money. The war between the New York daily papers on the subject of the City census still rages with unwanted violence. The census just taken makes the population only a little smaller than in 1860, when. taken by that model of democratic virtue, "Captain Rynders."

Focuses on several political and economic developments around the world. Problem of Italian aggression against Ethiopia and France; Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Schechter case, declaring National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) unconstitutional; Criticisms on the announcement of low wage scales for the work-relief program; Decision taken by the U.S. Supreme Court holding NIRA invalid; Impact of gold prices on an economy; Information on a U.S. President's message on Patman bill that provides plenty of money for veterans disabled in a war; Comments on the article "N.R.S. Sculptors and Chiselers," that shows ingenious business is in nullifying regulation; Referendum in the U.S. stating that wheat growers would give a six-to-one majority in favor of continuation of crop restriction; Law suit by two Newark corporations, the Clark Blade and Razor Co. and the Clark Blade Selling Corp. for $24,000,000 against the Gillette Razor Blade Co. on the ground that it sought to monopolize the razorblade industry, in violation of the federal anti-trust law; Appointment of Huey P. Long as the Tax Collector for the state of Louisiana; Dismissal of several technicians from the Columbia University Medical School presumably because of their pacifist activities; Decision that Havard now joins Williams, Princeton and Amherst in the list of American colleges and universities that have succeeded in banning the Hearst-Metrotone newsreel; Campaign conducted by columnist Arthur Brisbane encouraging people to get married; Competition over arts that leads to commerce.

Herman Talmadge, Georgia's pretender, plows ahead in his efforts to set back democracy's clock in the face of rising popular protest. His signature to the White Primary bill converts the Democratic Party of the state into a private club. The constitutionality of such action in his role of governor will be tested when decisions of three Superior Courts come up for review before Georgia's Supreme Court late this month. Some twenty members of the House and three members of the Senate, making their own estimate of the way the wind is blowing, have left the opposition and jumped on to the Talmadge bandwagon.

This article presents information on various socio-political and administrative developments in the U.S. and from around the world. One of them being the decision of Justice David J. Brewer in the Iowa district of the Circuit Court of Appeals. It is unquestionably the most important interpretation of the Inter-State Commerce Act which has been made. The decision, rendered on October 17, 1892 briefly stated, is to the effect that through-rates, when agreed to by two or more railroads, need bear no relation to the local rates imposed by either one of the carriers separately. Another being a report on the teaching of English language in Harvard college.

The article discusses a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Federal Power Commission, et al. v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. et al., which was handed down March 16, 1942. The case decided on the issue of public utility rate regulation. According to the author, the implication of the majority opinion is that the Court is now prepared to accept statutory and administrative policies in rate making which avoid confiscation. The writer gives a detailed account of the case and provides information on how rate regulations could be implemented in a better manner for the better conduct of business. He also mentions several problems that may arise from the case.

The article discusses the recent activity and adjudication among the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Mennen Company in relation to the Mennen Company's change in the classification of its distributors into retailers or wholesalers and their pricing policy for each. The article discusses the pressure exerted by the Wholesale Druggists Association that precipitated the Mennen Company's change in policy and the conflicting pressure on corporations from both the trade associations and cooperative buying groups. Specifics of the case are addressed and analyzed. The author predicts that more of these conflicts will arise and that the successful business owner will prepare for these pressures.

The article offers news briefs from the U.S. The Circuit Court of Appeals rules against the Duke Power Co. on the right of the public Works Administration (PWA) to finance publicly owned competitors of private power systems. Rural Electrification Administration, farm cooperatives have asked tech manufacturers of electrical household goods for wholesale factory prices. 75 percent of the employees of various firms have passed the newly formulated "Customer's Men" examination.

This article presents brief descriptions of various socio-political issue and developments in the U.S. It describes issue related with French dictator Franco's recent provocative moves toward France and Britain. When the demonstrations in Spanish Morocco against the French-imposed Sultan took place praising the Moorish leaders for demanding separation from French Morocco, the French government confidently asked the United States for support. Some Europeans hostile to the pact between Franco and the United States are charging that the whole flareup in Spanish Morocco was engineered by the Americans. Another issue regarding the importance of Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision reversing the conviction of Steve Nelson, the Communist Party official who had been sentenced to twenty years in prison and fined $10,000 for violating the Pennsylvania Sedition Act of 1919, is discussed here.

Presents several letters to the editor. Discussion of the proposed plan for making states suable by their bondholders in the U.S. Supreme Court; Information about the remedy provided to the creditors, in case of debts owned by towns, in New England; Overview of the library of the English colonialist John Winthrop.