Word: cardozo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carol Cardozo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation--which supports the referendum--said a study by the Foundation for Economic Research found that in 1987, Massachusetts spent more than $212 million because of the Prevailing Wage...
...Cardozo said the law tends to stifle competition and subsidize a certain class of workers--those who belong to unions. In addition, she said, the law makes it difficult for "entry-level workers" to get jobs...
...estate battle. New York's Paul, Weiss discovered last year that a young associate, Michael David, had masterminded the "Yuppie Five" insider-trading scandal. Attorneys handling corporate mergers also sometimes get too close to the action. "Twenty years ago, lawyers said to clients, 'You can't do this,' " says Cardozo Law School Professor William Bratton. "Now the old professional values have been eclipsed by the desire to 'make the deal...
Even at its birth, the exclusionary rule seemed to many an overreaction. "The criminal is to go free because the constable has blundered," objected New York Court of Appeals Judge Benjamin Cardozo, who was later to join the high bench. The real howls, however, did not come until 1961, when Earl Warren's Supreme Court ruled that state as well as federal courts were bound by the rule. About half the states had not previously adopted it; they hurriedly set up programs to school patrolmen on the ins and outs of the new requirements. The specifics changed almost monthly...
...import of this little-exercised grant of authority. Some agree with Northwestern Law Professor Martin Redish that "if Congress truly desires, it can do almost anything it wants to the jurisdiction of the lower courts or the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court." Many other experts, among them Cardozo Law School Professor Telford Taylor, argue that Congress cannot possess any power that would enable it to prevent the Supreme Court from doing its primary job of deciding constitutional issues. And the real purpose of the pending bills, says Taylor, is "to make it more difficult to vindicate constitutional rights." Summarizes...