Word: benches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor of Law Charles Fried traded the bench for the lectern this summer, giving up a seat on the state's highest court for a post at Harvard Law School. In addition, the law school announced this Wednesday that Fried has been appointed to its recently endowed Beneficial Professorship...
...never really left," said Fried, who lectured at the Law School part-time while he was serving on the bench...
Professor of Law Charles Fried traded the bench for the lectern this summer, giving up a seat on the state's highest court for a post at Harvard Law School. In addition, the law school announced this Wednesday that Fried has been appointed to its recently endowed Beneficial Professorship...
...never really left," said Fried, who lectured at the Law School part-time while he was serving on the bench...
...Hearing a lawsuit brought by James Dale, now 29, a New Jersey assistant scoutmaster expelled from the organization nine years ago after a newspaper revealed his sexual orientation, the New Jersey bench ruled unanimously that the Boy Scouts? broad-based membership and partnerships with police and fire departments and other public entities rendered it a "place of public accommodation" ? legally on a par with, say, a restaurant ? and therefore bound by the state?s anti-discrimination laws. "The New Jersey ruling is an important victory for the gay rights movement," says TIME correspondent Adam Cohen. "The ?place of public accommodation...