Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reported [Oct. 8] that Judge Morrissey's nomination to the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts had been approved by the American Trial Lawyers Association. Your reporter was misinformed. Judge Morrissey's qualifications never have been reviewed by our committee on the judiciary. The approval of Judge Morrissey by one of our members, speaking for himself and not for this association, was misconstrued as constituting an endorsement by the association. Such was not the case...
...diploma mill." Armed with this credential and testimonials from both of his teachers, Morrissey was admitted to practice before superior court in Clarke County on Sept. 7, 1933. The next day he went to Atlanta, where he won admittance to the Georgia supreme court and the U.S. district court, with two more diploma crammers as character witnesses...
...officials estimate that if pacification is really going to work, ultimately each district (comparable to an American county) will need at least 200 administrators, public health officers, teachers and engineers. South Viet Nam has 220 districts, so 45,000 trained men will be needed. Nowhere near that many are in sight...
...nomination of Francis X. Morrissey to the U.S. district court has been approved by the Judiciary Committee, and his appointment now awaits the consent of the Senate. But there is good reason for agreeing with the American Bar Association that "from the standpoint of legal training, legal experience and legal ability," Morrissey is unqualified for the federal bench...
Morrissey contends that he did not falsely represent his residence to officials in Georgia and remained in that state from June 1993 to March 1934. Yet, on September 2--only six months after Morrissey returned to Boston--official records show that he unsuccessfully ran in Boston's Second District for a seat in the Massachusetts State Legislature. Since the state constitution requires that a candidate have a year's residence in a district he seeks to represent, Morrissey would have been disqualified if his Georgia residence was in fact legitimate...