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...appeals court, O'Connor faced no landmark cases. But she did manage to cut the court's case load by persuading her former colleagues in the senate to modify laws involving workmen's compensation and unemployment insurance. Generally, she upheld trial judges, dismissing appeals from defendants who claimed they had been denied a speedy trial, refused transcripts, and other technicalities. In an article for the current issue of the William and Mary Law Review, she urged federal judges to give greater weight to the factual findings of state courts, contending that when a state judge moves...
...Connor's own intellectual gifts are widely praised, the self-assured woman, who is of medium height and wears such sensible clothes as suits with silk blouses and matching ascots, is neither dull company nor dour. "She never forgets she's a lady-and she'll never let you forget," says Attorney McGowan. Yet Stanford Vice President Joel P. Smith recalls her as "the best dancer I've ever danced with" when he knew her as a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees. She does a nifty two-step and enjoys country music. A superb...
...that most impresses acquaintances. When she and John helped complete their lavish home in suburban Paradise Valley, where houses cost $500,000 or more, one friend was amazed to find them both soaking adobe bricks in coat after coat of milk. "It's an old technique," O'Connor explained. "But I don't know why you use skim and not homogenized milk." Her father, who is 83, jokes about her diligence. "She's so damned conscientious," he says, "she wouldn't even give me a legal opinion. As a judge...
...will O'Connor's appointment, assuming she is confirmed, affect the decisions of the high court? The security of lifetime tenure can liberate Justices to see themselves in a new perspective, unencumbered by the pressures of climbing toward the top. They are there. Justices have often confounded the Presidents who appointed them with unpredictable decisions. After Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled against Teddy Roosevelt in a key antitrust case, the President, who had appointed Holmes, fumed: "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that." Said Dwight Eisenhower about his selection of Earl Warren...
Based on what little they know about O'Connor, legal scholars expect her to fit in neatly with a court that is sharply split in philosophy, tends to analyze each case on strictly legal merits, and has pioneered only in selected areas of the law. A Justice Department official says approvingly of O'Connor: "She is not leaping out to overrule trial court judges or state lawyers or to craft novel theories. Her opinions are sensible and scholarly...