tailieunhanh - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 1 P51

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 1 P51 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 488 BALDWIN SIMEON EBEN Education if it be real IS ONE OF THE great gifts of life. Simeon Baldwin notorious clarence darrow a self-proclaimed atheist defended Scopes. The trial ended with Scopes being convicted although the verdict was later overturned because of a judicial error. The trial brought the issue of academic freedom to the public s attention and probably helped stunt the growth of the antievolution movement. The ACLU was involved in the Sacco-Vanzetti murder case in which it was widely believed that the two defendants Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were scapegoated because they were italian anarchists and draft resisters. Baldwin led the AcLU into the anticensorship arena in the fight to lift the importation ban on such books as James Joyce s Ulysses. In 1938 the ACLU obtained an injunction against Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City ordering him to cease antiunion activities. AcLU lawyers defended the free expression and free press rights of the Jehovah s witnesses whose anti-Catholic rhetoric and aggressive canvassing tactics came under attack. They successfully argued that Henry Ford had a first amendment right to express his antiunion views as long as he did not threaten workers. Possibly the most controversial cases accepted by the AcLU were those that challenged the free speech rights of unpopular groups such as the Ku Klux Klan the German-American Bund and the American Nazi party. During world war ii Baldwin and the ACLU opposed the movement of Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast to relocation camps. After the war he helped General Douglas MacArthur set up a civil liberties policy for the occupation forces in Japan. He also consulted on civil liberties issues in the . zone of occupied Germany. Baldwin always a nonconformist lived an ascetic lifestyle wearing the same ill-fitting suit for years at a time and accepting a subsistence salary from the ACLU. He was married for fifteen years to Madeleine Z. Doty a reformist .