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7 Civ. Lib. Dock. [i] (1961-1962)

handle is hein.civil/cvlibdok0007 and id is 1 raw text is: CIVIL LIhMI1E DOCKET VOL. VII, No. 1 HIGHLIMMI ' OFTHIS ISSUE November, 1961 Every Case Becomes a First Amendment Case The Civul LIBERTIES DOCKET is now entering its seventh year. One of the ideas behind the DOCKET was that every case involving a question of civil liberties or civil rights could be fairly neatly categorized to make research easier in this'complex field. When a case fitted into two cate- gories, cross-references could be made. But more and more, difficult questions arise as to where the case should be filed. If a pacifist is arrested while defying a civil defense drill, should the case be put under 51. Disorderly Conduct or 55. Picketing, or 120. Pacifists and Conscientious Objectors? (See 55.9, 55.10, 58.20.) When agents of the Virginia Committee on Offenses Against the Administration of Justice raid the offices of a Negro law firm in Norfolk, seeking files on plaintiffs' suits for integration, and the Committee then subpoenas the clients, and their lawyers - should the resulting law suits be put under 272. Criminal Penalties for Non-disclosure - State Committees, or 332. Criminal Sanctions in the face of self-incrimination pleas, or under 373. Indirect Restrictions on the Right to Counsel? (See Jordan, 272.12.) When Freedem Riders and other Negro integrationists are charged with kidnapping a white couple in the midst of demonstrations for equal accommodations, should the case be reported under 523. Suits to Prevent Integration, or 512. Racial Discrimination in Selection of Grand Jury, or 312. Character of Evidence, or 401. Amount of Bail? (See Williams, 58.22.) These specific cases perhaps point up more sharply than any abstract discussion the fact that each day the right to speak, to think, to demonstrate beliefs, is becom- ing more deeply involved in every other question: integra- tion, conscientious objection to war and atomic testing, due process of law. Every case is a First Amendment case. Categories If, in using the DOCKET, you occasionaly cannot find a case in the category where you think it belongs, please ponder this truism (that every case becomes a First 'Amendment case) while you search a little further for another heading under which the case might have been put. Several new categories have been added in recent issues of the DOCKET: 23. Government Information and Secrecy; 244. Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin Act; 420. Illegal Arrest; 430. Due Process for Juvenile Offenders; 440. Due Process for In- competent Defendants; 503. Urban discrimination (against voters); 573. Nationality discrimination (in employment). The Lateness of the Hour This issue is somewhat late because it contains reports :f 144 new cases- the largest number reported in one ,issue in several years. There are a few new cases on the .rights of American Indians (602., 603.); on prisoners serving sentences (301.6, 150.1, .2), on Arizona's new sedition act (223.3), on deportation (358.) But the bulk of the new cases involves one or several aspects of the struggle for full citizenship for American Negroes. The United States government has filed many new challenges to the all-white ballot box in the south (501.). Negro parents in the south have filed many new school desegregation cases. (522.) The N.A.A.C.P. has filed many complaints against southern employers before the President's Committee on Equal Employment Oppor- tunity. (571.) But also in the north, many new cases have been filed. In Detroit, by white and Negro parents complaining of segre- gated schools (522.Mich2). In Chicago, Newark and Philadelphia by Negro parents with the same complaint (522.). A large number of cases have been filed involving discrimination in housing in the north (533.). Around many of these issues, clusters of legal cases arise. People are arrested by state officials while demon- strating for civil rights; they appeal, and they also file actions in the federal courts for injunctive relief against state prosecutions. Sometimes the federal government intervenes. Sometimes a state committee or other official also instigates some action. The result is that many cases are added to this DOCKET, and the reader with only a few moments to spare can gain real insight into the local situa- tions from'the brief case histories given. The Editor's Elbow... 22nd'May 1961 Dear Miss Ginger, 11 Quite a long time ago someone, to my eternal gratitude, put me on your mailing list for the CiviL LBERTmS DOCKET. I think I ought to have written before to tell you - or someone - that it has been simply invaluable. There is nothing comparable to it in this country; and to anyone concerned (a§ I am) with the safeguarding of individual liberties and the encroachments of bureaucracy it is a great help to have this skillfully compiled index to the decisions of the American Courts. You probably have no means of knowing, but the skeletal details given in the DOCKET have made it possible for me to refer to many U.S.A. decisions in New Statesman articles. I can usually follow up your references to magazine articles at the library of the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square. So this, belatedly, is a note to say many thanks and all power to your elbow! Your sincerely C. H. Rolph New Statesman, London Notice new address for the DOCKET: 1908 Virginia Street, Berkeley 9, California. CIVIL LIBERTIES DOCKET 1908 Virginia Street Berkeley 9, California Enclosed please find my check for $7.50 for Vol. VII (Nos. 1-4) of the CIVIL LIBERTIES DOCKET. Name Address

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