Word: courting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hahn sent Sullivan to Lasker, who lent the $250,000 under the impression that it was to be used to cover stock losses. A month later, the Second Circuit Court...
Appeals, with Judge Manton writing the decisions, threw out both suits against American Tobacco Co., one judge dissenting. Judge Manton was convicted last June for conspiring to sell decisions of his court. And, as a sequel of the Manton conviction,' Judge John Knox of the United States District Court last week, wrote a 50-page decision ordering Louis Levy's disbarment...
...Judge Knox: "In my judgment, however, Levy, in mind, heart and action, was venal and corrupt. . . . By virtue of the statute of limitations, he cannot here be prosecuted, but he can and will be disciplined. The discipline to be administered will be his disbarment from further practice before this court...
...that he is, and possessing an experience gained in more than 30 years of practice, he should have appreciated instantly that his dealings with Manton had been such that . . . they might well be calculated to warp or bias Manton's judgment. . . . Had Manton's colleagues upon the court been advised of the connection existing between him and Levy, it is unthinkable that either of them would have sat with Manton upon the appeals...
...office at No. 50 Broadway last week Louis Levy sat biting off bits of an unlit cigar, tossing them on the floor. Not until after the entry of the formal order would the disbarment be complete, would still be subject to possible stays. Disbarment from practice in this Federal Court would not prevent Louis Levy from continuing the practice of law in State courts. But almost automatically a record of the proceedings and Judge Knox's opinion would go to the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. If disbarred by the Appellate Division the name of Louis...