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...legend that is now coming apart traces back to 1940. That year Governor Culbert Olson appointed both Chief Justice Phil Gibson and Associate Justice Roger Traynor. Gibson was a master administrator, Traynor a brilliant theorist. Together they molded an efficient statewide judiciary led by a supreme court whose decisions were often artful expansions of existing law that created new rights for California's citizens. During its heyday in the 1960s, judges across the country frequently followed California's lead in criminal and consumer rights...
Some time in the 1970s the trouble began. Gibson and Traynor had retired, and the seven-man bench was saddled with a senile justice who refused to step down. Seeking to change the court's direction, then Governor Ronald Reagan made three appointments, including one (William Clark, now National Security Adviser) whose failure to finish law school prompted charges that Reagan was naming lightweights. A few years later the same charge was being tossed at Governor Jerry Brown, who also tried to fill the court with nominees sharing his outlook...
...America's master literary pitchman. No fiction writer sells ideas and myths with more elan and imagination. His fantasies about popular culture and allegorical burlesques have been set in places as disparate as a department-store basement (A Bad Man), an all-night radio station (The Dick Gibson Show) and heaven and hell (The Living...
...Ella Gibson Palo Alto, Calif...
Michael A Gibson '86 said yesterday that "It's quite a ways from Canaday to the neatest security phone...