Word: fortases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Concern. If all else fails, Johnson could keep the Senate in special session until his nominations are approved. Obtaining their seats only through cloture or a special session would, however, be something of a humiliation for Fortas and Thornberry. The President and his nominees thus have some cause for...
Reading It All. Apart from his reputation as a liberal?a useful but sometimes misleading label when applied to judicial decisions?Fortas has a personal concern for social justice. At his urging, Arnold, Fortas, and Porter, his law firm in Washington for nearly two decades, took on something like 100...
As unpaid counsel for the defense in 1954 Fortas persuaded the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to adopt a broadened rule for criminal insanity ("An accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or defect"). That rule brought the law, which had...
Indeed, for a layman, his understanding of psychiatry is profound. Besides being a trustee of the William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, Fortas has written often for its journal, Psychiatry. Preparing to sit on one case that required psychiatric backing, he asked an expert to "give me just as much to...
Citizen & State. Asked by the court in 1962 to bring before it the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, prisoner No. 003826 at the Florida State Prison, Fortas, even as a private lawyer, was instrumental in shaping the decision that guaranteed any indigent defendant a court-appointed lawyer. Gideon was more...