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...current president of the American Bar Association, Chesterfield Smith has been more than fulfilling the traditional task of addressing just about any law school, local bar association or legal group that invites him (estimated totals for the 18 months, since be became president-elect: 200 speeches and 225,000 miles traveled). Unlike some of his predecessors, however, doling out Pollyanna platitudes. He sticks to his mission: to shake up the A.B.A. and the entire legal profession...
...keep visibly pregnant teachers out of the sight of schoolchildren. Now the boards contend that the rules are necessary to protect the health of mother and child and to enable administrators to plan for continuous instruction. Faced with similar suits by LaFleur, another Cleveland teacher and a teacher from Chesterfield County, Va., the court concluded that, while health and instructional continuity are valid goals, long leave requirements are unnecessarily rigid. They violate the due-process clause, said Justice Potter Stewart, because there is a constitutionally protected "freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life." Therefore long mandatory...
...device to get the defendants to cooperate with investigators. "We must be concerned about a federal judge ?no matter how worthy his motives or how much we may applaud his results?using the criminal-sentencing process as a means and tool for further criminal investigation of others," contends Chesterfield Smith, president of the American Bar Association. The association's president-elect, James Fellers of Oklahoma City, much admires Sirica and his Watergate role but likens the sentencing tactic to "the torture rack and the Spanish Inquisition." Argues Law Dean Monroe Freedman of Hofstra University: "Sirica deserves to be censured...
...Reservations. Jaworski gets high marks from lawyers who know him. Although President Chesterfield Smith of the American Bar Association would prefer a completely independent prosecutor, he says of Jaworski: "It's a fabulous appointment. I have absolutely no reservations about his competency and integrity. He's a stand-up guy. If he's shoved, he will shove back...
...said: "It's certainly far more incongruous to expect people [meaning the Administration] to investigate themselves." To erase the problem, some sponsors say they would be willing to have the prosecutor named by all 15 active judges of the district court. Such a scheme was backed by Chesterfield Smith, president of the American Bar Association...