Word: contempts
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...Court of Appeals Judge Mildred Lillie?nominees widely regarded as obscure and unsatisfactory. It looked like Haynsworth and Carswell all over again, some Senators predicted, with another vitriolic fight over confirmation. "As a group," Edward Kennedy had said, the six candidates Nixon was known to be considering reflected "utter contempt for the court...
Richard A. Falk. Milbank Professor of International Law at Princeton, is now facing contempt charges for refusing to testify before the Boston-based grand jury which is investigating the release and distribution of the Pentagon Papers...
...only did Jackson not take the bait, he now seemed to hold the offer of it in contempt. Officials reported that Jackson came back to San Quentin with a "changed attitude." Precisely what this change in attitude entailed is difficult to say. Jackson's prison record shows an escalation in the severity of the violations with which he was now being charged. According to the record, Jackson, who was not a small man, was beginning to throw his weight around...
CHARLES CLARK, 46. Also a Nixon appointee to the Fifth Circuit Court, in 1969, Clark likewise had no earlier experience on the bench. In 1962, as special assistant to the Mississippi attorney general, he successfully defended Governor Ross Barnett on contempt charges for forcibly resisting the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. Civil rights advocates consider him a moderate Southerner...
...court declined to hear an appeal in the "Baby Lenore" adoption case. The decision meant that Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas DeMartino must surrender their adopted daughter, Lenore, 16 months old, to her natural mother and face a 30-day contempt of court sentence -but only if the DeMartinos ever return to New York State. They fled New York City to avoid giving up the child and now live in Miami. A Florida judge has ruled that under state law they could keep Lenore...