Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Applications for criminal complaints were filed against the three -- Thomas Coates, Bernard Goldberg, and William G. Maher -- in East Cambridge District Court last week. Preliminary hearings on the applications have been set for next week...
...years on the bench, Oklahoma's U.S. District Court Judge Stephen S. Chandler, 65, earned a distinguished reputation as a specialist on streamlining the courts. His long experience won him a place on an American Bar Association committee set up to study the problem of removing "aged, ill or otherwise infirm" judges who, despite their disability, cling to their office. But in December, when the judges of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals met to devise a method to dispense with the services of a judge, they did not ask Chandler's advice. It was Chandler himself whom...
...more cases. They let him keep his title, his chambers, and his $30,000 salary. Their ruling, the judges explained, was based on a 1948 statute that gave the Judicial Councils of the Circuit Courts of Appeals the power to issue "orders for the effective administration" of the U.S. District Courts...
...Court ruled in one of these cases that Chandler showed "personal enmity, hostility, and prejudice" toward the executives of the Occidental Petroleum Co., calling them collectively "shady characters, pirates, vultures," and had singled out one of them as a "son of a bitch." He had accused a fellow U.S. District Court judge of "spitting in my face," and expressed fear that the water in his carafe was poisoned...
...original Rock was Gibraltar, that whale-headed monolith that was a minor prize and major symbol of the British Empire in its grandest days. Mocked the anti-imperialist Catholic poet Chesterton: "Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain, and attached to its base is the district of Spain...