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...once on the bench, Powell turned out to be far more flexible than Nixon had expected, and in fact has become one of the least predictable of the Justices. Before his nomination, Powell said in an article that Americans had little to fear from the Government's use of wiretaps against the "radical left...
...down Nixon's claim that the Government did not need a court order to bug suspected domestic security risks. Similarly, Powell once approvingly told the American Bar Association that the Supreme Court seemed to be moving away from usurping the authority of the Legislative Branch. But on the bench, he voted with the majority in a decision that not only legalized abortions but set forth unusually detailed guidelines on them...
DIED. Sir Dingle Foot, 72, British parliamentarian, globetrotting barrister and member of a remarkable political family; after choking on a sandwich; in Hong Kong, where he was on legal business. The son of a Liberal statesman, Dingle became an M.P. at 26. He swung to the Labor bench in 1956 and served as Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Solicitor General. When his younger brothers Hugh and Michael also became prominent in government, Tory critics joked that they were the country's "three Left feet...
DIED. Luther W. Youngdahl, 82, unflappable federal judge who in three famous rulings bucked the Government's anti-Communist zeal of the 1950s; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Youngdahl, a deeply religious son of Swedish immigrants, was appointed to the bench in 1951 after five years as a racket-busting Republican Governor of Minnesota. In 1952 he drew a Government perjury case against Asia Expert Owen Lattimore, whom Senator Joseph R. McCarthy called "the top Soviet espionage agent in the United States." Youngdahl threw out several Government indictments against Lattimore, refused to withdraw from the case when...
...Second allows oral argument in more than 90% of its cases (vs. an average of 70% in the other circuits). But the flow of advocacy may be quickly cut off if the judges find it repetitious or unessential. Judges in the Second often decide appeals directly from the bench, simply stating their reasons and dispensing with written opinions...