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...professionals at disagreeing," Chief Justice Burger tells friends. "We're experts at arguing with each other without getting personally aggrieved." But the experts have been under remarkable pressure this year from the giant docket of cases and the strains of a shifting philosophical direction. Even the affable Chief Justice was heard last week groaning about the difficulties caused when "one of the brethren packs up and leaves town early and then tries to conduct his business back and forth across 4,000 miles or however far it is out there." He was referring to Justice Douglas, who left three...
...Spring of 1969, when the number of members attending meetings forced the Faculty to move first to the Loeb Drama Center, then to Sanders Theatre. In the aftermath of the University Hall bust in 1969, there were sometimes two meetings a week to handle all the items on the docket...
Well, trend-watchers on the Harvard political circuit, yesterday carried the forboding news that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has cancelled a regularly scheduled meeting for the second time this season. "There being no business ready for action upon the Docket," the Docket Committee somberly wrote, "the Dean of the Faculty has recommended, and the Faculty Council has agreed, that the Faculty Meeting of January 11 be omitted." So it goes...
However, Dan Hirsch, a former member of the Committee, said that much more could not be done because the legislation had to go through the Faculty Council, be placed on the Docket Committee, and then put to vote before the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...past two months have been before the smaller jury. The California legislature is now considering making eight-member juries the state-wide rule in civil cases. Though Judge McCarty has had to divert some of his regular judges to criminal cases, his reforms have allowed the civil docket to move at the same pace as last year...