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Died. Alexander Holtzoff, 82, oldest member of the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Brilliant and fiercely independent, Holtzoff waged a running battle with higher courts during most of his 24 years on the bench. In 1952, he refused to nullify President Truman's seizure of the steel industry, only to be reversed by the Supreme Court; ten years later, he fined the U.S. Communist Party $120,000 for failing to register as an agent of the Soviet Union, and was reversed again. As a colleague put it: "Most of us take...
...single supreme court justice sitting to hear petitions in the absence of the full bench was Paul Reardon. Three years ago, Reardon drew up the American Bar Association's stringent Fair Trial-Free Press code, which, among other things, recommended excluding reporters from all pretrial proceedings or hearings that do not take place before a jury. "Hearsay can be introduced at any inquest," Reardon said last week, "even hearsay on top of hearsay." After granting a postponement, Reardon pointedly implied that District Attorney Edmund Dinis and other authorities involved in the case had been speaking too freely. Such statements...
...tone as well as the direction of questioning in the "nonaccusatory" proceeding. A 1929 graduate of what was then the Southeastern Massachusetts Law School, Boyle, 62, served as Dukes County Superior Court clerk for 27 years before former Governor John A. Volpe appointed him to the District Court bench in 1961. Some observers question his judicial competence, and one acquaintance asserts that Boyle was so innocent of the law that he thought he could remain superior court clerk even after his appointment to the District Court. Yet he is generally regarded as a fair jurist who conducts court business...
...like a poised veteran. In his first two appearances, he astonished baseball buffs by registering shutouts. He pitched a total of seven shutouts to tie a 63-year-old record for rookies, won 19 games, and posted a 2.08 ERA. He lost out to Cincinnati's rugged Catcher Johnny Bench as Rookie of the Year by a single vote ?the closest balloting ever for the honor...
...never promised to abide by that custom. Privately, the President says that he does not consider that there is a Jewish, Catholic or Negro seat on the court. Haynsworth is a sitting federal judge who, at 56, can expect at least ten or 15 years on the Supreme Court bench. His decisions have been moderate to conservative on civil rights, and occasionally liberal in cases involving the rights of criminals. But above all, Haynsworth is a strict constructionist who subscribes to Nixon's dictum that "it is the job of the courts to interpret the law, not make...