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Law Day, as a national celebration of the law, was originally the idea of Charles S. Rhyne, Eisenhower's legal counsel for a time, who was serving in 1957–1958 as president of the American Bar Association. [2] Eisenhower proclaimed May 1 to be Law Day, U.S.A. in 1958. [3] Its observance was later codified by Public Law 87-20 on April 7, 1961. [4]
An 1890s poster showing Washington's Birthday as February 22, the date on which it always fell before being changed by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.. The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub. L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250, enacted June 28, 1968) is an Act of Congress that permanently moved two federal holidays in the United States to a Monday, being – Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day – and ...
Gideon's Day (U.S. title: Gideon of Scotland Yard) is a 1958 police procedural crime film directed by John Ford and starring Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster and Cyril Cusack. [1] The screenplay was by T.E.B. Clarke , adapted from John Creasey 's 1955 novel of the same title .
Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1 (1958), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that denied the school board of Little Rock, Arkansas the right to delay racial desegregation for 30 months. [1]
Crooker v. California, 357 U.S. 433 (1958), [1] was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that limited criminal suspects' constitutional right to counsel before trial, refusing to overturn a subsequent conviction without a showing that the refusal of counsel had a coercive or prejudicial effect.
Pages in category "1958 in law" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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According to Alabama case law, however, a petitioner could not seek a hearing or to dissolve an order until it purged itself of contempt. Lead attorney on NAACP v. Alabama, Judge Robert L. Carter (left), with the dean of Georgetown University Law Center, William Treanor. The United States Supreme Court reversed the first contempt judgment. The ...