If the warrant or summons form is filed in the clerkâs office, the clerk marks the date and. time of receipt in the clerkâs office on the form, issues receipts for fees, assigns the case a. sequential case number which is placed on the form, and indexes the case in the case index. system.
Hofstadter Committee. The Hofstadter Committee, also known as the Seabury investigations, was a joint legislative committee formed by the New York State Legislature to probe into corruption in New York City, especially the magistrate's courts and police department in 1931. It led to major changes in the method of arrest, bail and litigation of suspects in New York City.
Roger Nash Baldwin was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union. He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author.