Word: bench
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judges do not just judge any more; they legislate, make policy, even administer. Indeed, says U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Irving Kaufman, "sometimes it seems that business, psychology and sociology degrees, in addition to a law degree, should be prerequisites for the federal bench." When Boston's duly elected school committee refused to bus schoolchildren, the local federal judge did it himself, right down to approving the bus routes. A federal judge in Alabama ruled that inadequate mental-health care is unconstitutional. So what is adequate? His answer was a list of 84 minimal standards, reaching down...
...California lower courts rejected the suit, ruling that such agreements are not enforceable if the relationship is "meretricious," in other words money for sex. In fact, the first judge got up and left the bench while Mitchelson was still making his case. Mitchelson announced that he was delighted; now he could make new law for the whole state by taking his case to higher courts on appeal...
Basketball co-captain Bob Hooft sat slumped on a bench in the funeral parlor of a post-game lockerroom at the IAB last night, when all of a sudden an idea came into his head...
George Hughes and Jack Hughes assisted Watson's goal which sent the Crimson bench into a frenzy and the B.C. Eagles into a state of depression...
Elaine Holpuch, the freshman scoring dynamo, twisted an ankle in the first minute of play and had to sit out the first half, while captain Caryn Curry, with three personal fouls in the first four minutes, also spent most of the first half on the bench...