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Federalist Society, Washington. Part of the conservative legal network that in part is the offspring of the law-and-economics movement at the University of Chicago Law School. Provides contacts for "movement conservative" law students, professors and lawyers. Membership is considered a boost to appointive positions, including the federal bench. One of a number of headhunting advocacy tanks looking for the next generation of conservative leadership...
...decisions have produced a wave of excitement in legal circles. "This is a terribly important trend," says Dugard. "I wouldn't say it's a confrontation, but the courts are asserting their independence and distancing themselves from the executive." Concurs a leading white lawyer: "There is a more responsive bench today than there has been in previous decades...
...strong today as in the past." On the Eastern side, officials insist that the "German question" is closed forever and denounce any suggestion of reunification. But the longing is not dead among the population. A visitor to East Berlin was consulting a city map on a park bench when an elderly woman asked if she could look. "We can't get maps that show the West," she explained, "and I just wanted to see the whole thing again...
...returned to prison, a rate 35% lower than the normal return rate. Says Elzy Smith, a circuit-court judge who would rather sentence some first-time offenders to RID than grant them probation: "It's the best thing to come down the pike since I've been on the bench...
...retired General William Westmoreland against CBS generated 9,745 pages of transcripts in 68 days of testimony. Using CAT technology, Stenotypist Joel Hillman was able to produce printed transcripts of each morning's proceedings soon after the lunch break. Besides offering instant access to the record, the new bench-top machines provide an unexpected benefit. Judge Marshall, who at first found the terminals "distracting," has discovered that he can sometimes prepare for other cases during routine testimony, consulting the monitor from time to time to keep up with the proceedings...