January 1886: The state Supreme Court struck down a New Brunswick Common Council resolution dismissing the old police force and electing a new one. The action was found to violate an 1885 state law providing that policemen employed by a municipality could hold their offices during good behavior. The city argued that a general law could not repeal its special charter, but the Court answered, “If this opinion is not obnoxious to the criticisms of defendants’ counsel directed against [the law's] constitutionality, it seems to cover the acts of the Common Council under review.”
100 Years Ago
January 1911: Criticism of handwriting experts had reached such levels in the press that William Kinsley, a well-known “examiner of questioned documents,” felt constrained to respond. He was particularly incensed at a New York State judge’s reported statement that such experts were only hired guns. “Unfortunately, it is true that there are handwriting experts who are incompetent or dishonest or both,” Kinsley wrote in a commentary. “Yet it is possible to so show up these venal and incompetent men by a thorough cross-examination as to demonstrate their bias or ignorance.”
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