heard on the October calendar. Week after week Mr. Julber checked the calendar of the cases to be heard. He began to feel that in this particular case "no news was good news". If they weren't going to hear the case they would have said so immediately in the first listings. Mr. Julber had been looking forward to arguing the case before the Court when he received word January 13, 1958, that the Court had granted the petition and had unanimously reversed the lower court decisions. They wished to hear no further argument on the matter, and no opinion was written by them setting any guides for the future in this area. This was rather disappointing to Mr. Julber, but still a cause for jubilation for him, the homophile movement and all those concerned with free speech and freedom of the press.
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A number of law schools throughout the country have requested copies of Mr. Julber's masterful brief which caused the case to be accepted by the Supreme Court. This was a great victory for a young civil liberties lawyer to have his first Supreme Court case accepted and decided in his favor unanimously. Mr. Julber stated that while he had helped in the fight for liberty of expression of homosexual life in literature, he hoped that he could help in the future fight for the right of individuals to live the kind of life that was right for them so long as it was non-harmful to society.
After Mr. Julber finished his speech it was announced that outside of his small yearly retainer, he had done the U.S. Supreme Court case entirely without charge.
In completing the picture of "Homosexuality:A Way of Life", the general topic of the day, a series of roundtable discussions were held simultaneously with the audience participating in which ever group they chose. Quite obviously Miss Russell could not attend all of these sessions, so through team efforts we have managed to capture the highlights of what went on.
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