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...result of the falling out, however, the newspaper will no longer give Lord, Day & Lord litigation assignments. Instead, these will be handled by another New York firm, Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Reindel & Ohl, which, with the help of Constitutional Law Professor Alexander Bickel of Yale, successfully represented the Times in the Pentagon papers case...
...publishing classified material that he claimed would do "great and irreparable harm" to the nation's security. In lower courts, the Government had alleged that willful disclosure of secret information violated both the Espionage Act and an executive order dealing with classified material. Arguing for the Times, Alexander Bickel, the polished Yale law professor, contended that the Government had failed to show there was a "direct and immediate link" between "the fact of publication" and any "grave event" that endangered the nation. When Griswold contended in his summary that the First Amendment was "not intended to make it impossible...
During the Manhattan hearing, Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel, representing the Times, suggested that the Post's move had mooted the case against his client. As he saw it, the injunction was now academic and the Times itself had become the injured party. "The readers of the New York Times alone in this country are being deprived of the story," Bickel argued. That became even more evident when U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell in Washington rejected the Government's request for a temporary injunction against the Post. Lacking clear proof that the pre-1968 report was damaging to current national...
Wechsler's call for neutral principles, sounded in 1959, has been amplified by Yale's Alexander Bickel in his book The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress. "The heart of the matter," Bickel said recently, "is that you can't persuade people that you operate differently from the politicians, who after all can be voted out of office, unless you pursue some other process than they pursue. And that other process has to be one of applying reasons rather than playing group politics." If that is not the case, "the point is that over time...
...guessing game of who else might be the next dean, however, four Harvard professors of Law-Paul M. Bator, Robert E. Keeton, David L. Shapiro and James Vorenberg-and Yale's Alexander Bickel were frequently men-tioned as likely choices...