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...personal charm and his position," says Professor Kalven. "Fortas will do it by being the best man on the team." In cases where he is by himself or has only one or two colleagues agreeing with him, whatever he does will make little difference, observes Yale Professor Alexander Bickel. But where he is in a minority of four, as he was last month in the public-drunkenness decision, the added power he has as Chief Justice might be enough to tip the scales and turn a dissent into a decision...
Some scholars see the next few years as a period of consolidation in which the Fortas court will refine and clarify the sometimes cluttered landmarks of the Warren era. Others, like Yale's Bickel, suspect that the Fortas court may have even bigger problems, exert even a greater influence on the nation...
Lonely Dissenter. Critics also charge sloppy legal draftsmanship in many decisions that have not so much outraged as confused. The Justices, notes Yale Scholar Alexander Bickel, have yet to come up with a workable definition of obscenity. The decisions curbing police abuses have been almost as murky, says Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland. "After Escobedo," he quips, "you need Miranda, and after Miranda, we will need maybe twelve more decisions...
Tomorrow Crimson southpaw Jim McCandlish will try to send Penn to its fourth defeat in five League games, also at Splinter Stadium. The Quakers upset Yale a week ago behind junior right hander Ed Bickel but they have done little else, while posting a less than awesome 2-6 overall record...
Like most of the current crop, Lane's book is essentially a staggering accumulation of minutiae and half-truths based on minutiae. Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel, himself a critic of the commission, has dismissed Lane's opus as "peripheral and indiscriminate," concluded: "Great trial lawyers, like great detectives, have an instinct for the jugular; Mr. Lane has an instinct for the capillaries...