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Since Frankfurter's death in 1965, his reputation as a combative and principled jurist has endured. And so have reservations about his penchant for exerting policy influence in questionable ways. The latest fuss concerns his actions in the historic 1954 school-integration case Brown v. Board of Education. Philip Elman, 69, a former Frankfurter law clerk who served as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, says that while Brown was in progress Frankfurter regularly shared with him the confidential views of fellow Justices, which Elman later used when preparing Government briefs in the case...
Ordinarily, the positions aired in the Supreme Court's private conferences are its most closely guarded secret. And canons of legal ethics have long forbidden judges to discuss unofficially with lawyers the merits of any case pending before them. But Brown was a case of "extraordinary" importance, says Elman. "The ordinary rules didn't apply." Not so, retorts Yale Law Professor Geoffrey Hazard, who helped draft the American Bar Association's 1983 rules of conduct for lawyers. "Brown put the court's institutional legitimacy on the line. That is why one ought to have been absolutely punctilious...
...Irving Elman Pacific Palisades, Calif...
Seminars involve long days and heavy concentration. The day frequently begins with a breakfast discussion and ends with an afterdinner session. Says Arthur Fish-elman, a vice president of human resources for Revlon, who organizes between 75 and 100 study sessions annually: "These seminars entail enormously hard work and total involvement...
Like its literary antecedents, Spoon River Anthology and Winesburg, Ohio, John Howland Spyker's Little Lives consists of sketches: hard, brilliant line drawings of small-town Americans. With a roving eye for bawdy detail, Spyker (pseudonym for Poet and Novelist Richard Elman) compresses each life into a tidy epiphany; an individual is captured with an anecdote or gesture, an eccentricity or epitaph. Judge Fury collected wives and knives; "P.C.B." Terry, who once took a swig of that carcinogenic chemical, spent the rest of his life growing tomatoes that no one else dares to eat. Hypolite Hargrove made a small...