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...Supreme Court that remains the primary concern. As Greenberg says, "It sets the direction and tone for courts all across the country." And it is the high-court selections that are expected to give the next President his greatest opportunity to put a definitive stamp on the nation's legal system: five of the nine present Justices are over 70 years...
...Court building. Personal reactions aside, they were faced with serious problems posed by Douglas' absence. The Justices decided to delay hearing arguments on five cases. Each one was picked not so much for its importance, but because without Douglas the others feared a tie vote that would render high-court consideration meaningless; it would simply leave a lower-court decision in effect...
...Congress had passed a law forbidding such a removal without the consent of the Senate. Because the Senate had not consented, Stanton refused to give up his office. But the President would not back off, confident that the Supreme Court would find Congress' firing restriction unconstitutional. Before any high-court determination, however, the House voted eleven articles of impeachment. With the Senate sitting as a trial court and presided over by the Chief Justice, the charges were prosecuted by the "managers" from the House, one of whom elegantly defined an impeachable act as being "subversive of some fundamental...
...Women are inferior to men in physiological performance," and "the imbalance between wages and productivity registers itself earlier among women than men." These remarkable statements were included in a Tokyo high-court decision upholding an earlier compulsory retirement age for women than for men. The case in question began four years ago when Miyo Nakamoto was discharged from her job as a draftswoman by the Nissan Motor Company Ltd. when she became 50, the firm's mandatory retirement age for women. Mrs. Nakamoto sued to stay on until 55, the age at which male employees must leave...
...London two weeks ago, a high-court trial ended with a landmark settlement against the Distillers Co., which made Distaval under license from its West German originators. It awarded David $49,920 and Richard $30,720. (At the request of Mr. Justice Hinchcliffe, the family surnames were not published.) Hinchcliffe explained that he had tried the cases together because David represented the most serious bracket of deformities and Richard the middle range...