Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the public's back has been turned, a handful of lawyers and laymen have been trying to improve the courts of the U.S. A leader in this fight is Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court, a distinguished jurist and the head of a state court system that has risen from one of the nation's worst to one of the best in ten years. Judge Vanderbilt notes that although some jurisdictions have made great improvements in the last two decades, in others the judges are substandard, procedures are unnecessarily complex, and court...
...used in Judge Vanderbilt's New Jersey, the pretrial conference has shortened trials by from a third to a half. Vanderbilt notes-and condemns-the tendency of judges in some jurisdictions to use the conference to force settlements, but he contends that even without such coercion three out of four cases are settled soon after the pretrial conferences. Reason: the conference gives each litigant knowledge of his own weakness and his adversary's strength...
...administrative responsibility in addition to his judicial duties, he must have full-time professional help. Only 13 states (plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia) now have such offices of judicial administration. An example of their work is seen in the weekly summary of reports from every New Jersey judge, listing hours spent on the bench, cases and motions heard, and decisions reserved. These reports on individual performance are distributed to all judges. The effect on indolent judges when their laziness is thus exposed has, Arthur Vanderbilt says tersely, been "truly remarkable...
...former New Jersey State Chess Champion from the Medical School will be playing simultaneous matches on 20 boards in the Dunster House Large Common Room tomorrow evening...
...House floor, California's Democratic Representative James Roosevelt rose to make his maiden speech. Subject: something should be done about U.S. citizens who are starving and/or earn less than $1,000 a year. His sole congressional listeners: California's Republican J. Arthur Younger and New Jersey's elephantine (320 Ibs.) Democrat T. James Tumulty. When Congressman Roosevelt finished his oration, puckish Jim Tumulty applauded thunderously, asked that the record show the speech was received by "a large and appreciative audience...