Word: gurfein
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DIED. Murray Gurfein, 72, federal judge who rejected the Nixon Administration's 1971 suit to block the New York Times's publication of the Pentagon papers; of a heart attack; in New York City. An affable, erudite New Yorker, Gurfein graduated from Harvard Law School in 1930 and became a chief aide to Thomas E. Dewey, then special state rackets prosecutor, later New York's Governor. He served as one of the prosecutors at the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes trials, practiced law privately for 25 years, and was nominated by President Nixon as a judge...
...Farrow (amount unknown), Barbra Streisand ($28,500), Barbara Walters ($28,500), Bob Dylan (who now has $78,000 more reason to sing of capitalist exploitation). New York Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson put up an unknown amount; Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, $28,500; Federal Judge Murray Gurfein, who wrote the decision in the Pentagon-papers case, $70,000. Most astonishing is the list of astute businessmen like Wriston who invested their personal funds. Fred J. Borch, former chairman of General Electric, put up $440,920; William H. Morton, president of American Express, $57,000; Donald Kendall, chairman...
When the Times refused to comply. Assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian began the Government's legal attack by seeking a temporary restraining order?the prelude to a permanent injunction?in Manhattan's federal court. By chance, the case went before a recent Nixon appointee, U.S. District Judge Murray I. Gurfein, who was serving his first day on the bench. Last Tuesday the new judge issued the restraining order and set a Friday hearing to consider the injunction. Meanwhile, the Government showed concern about its key legal problem: how to prove the alleged injury. It asked Judge Gurfein to order...
...appeals court reversed Judge Gesell's ruling. By a vote of 2 to 1, the higher court halted further Post disclosures pending a full hearing in which the Government must prove the need for a permanent injunction. Meanwhile in Manhattan, the Government failed to prove that need to Judge Gurfein's satisfaction. Denying the injunction against the Times, Gurfein reported that Friday's secret hearing had produced no evidence of damaging data. "Without revealing the content of the testimony," he wrote, "suffice it to say that no cogent reasons were advanced as to why these documents, except in the general...
Still, the professors were hesitant to anticipate Gurfein's decision. As one sympathetic to the Times and Judge Gurfein said, "When you get right down to it, if I were in his position, I would throw up my hands and go home...