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Number ten was more difficult; Wilson rarely has occasion to go that far down the bench. Confident that his backcourt was secure with Dressler, Grate, Johnson and Beller, Wilson finally settled on 6-5 forward Jim Griswold to complete the trip roster...
Having shot down the city solicitor, the Post & Times-Star focused its attention on Probate Court Judge Chase M. Davies. It turned out that during his 19 years on the bench, he had made a practice of appointing relatives and close friends as appraisers. Out of a $37,575,282 estate left by a Procter & Gamble heiress, two of Judge Davies' friends had each received a $37,575 fee. Upset by the publicity, the probate judge paid two frantic calls on Editor Thornburg to try to persuade him that he was a man of probity. Said Thornburg...
...Connecticut case, Stewart had a third supporter, Justice William O. Douglas. Will a fourth appear? Justice Abe Fortas, for example, is the very lawyer who won the Gideon decision in one of his great pre-bench coups. As court watchers see it, the silent justices are mainly fearful of the effects of carrying out Gideon's admitted logic. Most misdemeanor cases now take only a few minutes; to require lawyers might inflate them into regular trials. The country has not even begun to provide enough public defenders for accused felons; adding misdemeanor cases might overwhelm...
...justices ducked a ruling that would have cut their salaries. In such cases, Alabama law requires the Governor to appoint a special court of five lawyers to hand down a decision. Governor Benjamin M. Miller had no trouble rounding up the required number of lawyers and, once on the bench, the substitute judges soon slashed the regular judges...
...even the temporary honor of serving as a supreme court justice. Those chosen are likely to bend over backward being fair: there is always a chance that they may later appear before Justice Simpson's court. And at 73, he has every intention of staying on the bench indefinitely. Back in 1961, the state legislature passed a law aimed at forcing elderly judges to retire in order to get full retirement benefits. Justice Simpson simply announced that his brethren would rule the law unconstitutional if it ever came before them. This year he ran for another six-year term...