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...they hoped would lead to eventual accreditation of the Law School by the American Bar Association. (The Law School is also unaccredited.) And so Calvin Coolidge College began to die. The College is a drain financially and physically on the Law School. For the Law School to meet the ABA's requirements, the school is going to be forced to retain the money and land now used by the college. Since accreditation time is coming up soon, the Trustees have quietly notified the college students that CCC will be gradually phased out of existence. Those who are currently enrolled will...
...media have focused their ire on the ABA recommendation that judges use the threat of contempt rulings to enforce restrictions on pre-trial publicity. The media have charged that such judicial interference would be a blatant violation of the first amendment...
...dangers are real, but not overwhelming. The ABA proposal narrowly limits punishable violations to leaks that are, "willfully designed...to affect the outcome of the trial, and that seriously threatens to have such an effect." Contempt rulings would have to be backed by juries, and according to Committee members, penalties would be reprimands and fines, not prison terms, for editors and publishers. The threatened interference with the first amendment seems mild compared with the toll now taken by violations of the sixth...
...media have noisily pointed out, they are by no means the only-or the primary-culprits in leaking extra-judicial information. The police, prosecutors, and lawyers-as sources of press information-actually deserve the largest part of the blame. The ABA readily acknowledges this and the committee's recommendations aim primarily at these groups. If local bars adopt the ABA guidelines (as now seems likely) they can expel lawyers who violate them. And the ABA also recommended that police and courts punish law enforcement or judicial officers who violate ABA's proposed restrictions...
...cooperation of editors could have prevented this crisis in relations between the press and the judiciary, but while almost all media representatives pay lip service to voluntary censorship of criminal news, only a minority have exercised the needed restraint. The ABA's cautious restrictions on the freedom of the press are probably necessary...