Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practice some judges have ordered confidential documents sur rendered only if three tests are met: that there is a "compelling state interest"; that the evidence sought can be shown to be relevant ("particularity"); and that it cannot be obtained in any other way. But in the Jersey case, the lawyer asked for everything. The judge made no attempt to narrow the request, and when the Times asked for a hearing, he peremptorily turned it down. This is surely arbitrary behavior, but all Jersey courts sustained it-until State Attorney General John Degnan went to the Supreme Court to argue successfully...
...legal matters, points out that Nixon got a hearing before turning over his papers. And though U.S. Attorney Gen eral Griffin Bell was recently cited for contempt for protecting FBI sources, nobody put him in jail, like Farber, while the appeals went on. Yet a federal judge in New Jersey, refusing to release Farber and calling him "evil," ruled so intemperately that he didn't even get his facts straight. The Farber case seems to have this effect. He had "discovered" that Farber had a $75,000 advance for a book (though this fact had been mentioned in court...
...prizewinning reporter, Haynes Johnson. Now it was Rosenthal's turn to get testy. "I wrote Johnson that his piece was the 'nadir of journalism for 30 years'-accepting what a judge had to say, never checking anybody before he began to vilify." Rosenthal thinks the whole Jersey judicial establishment is after what one judge called "the imperialistic press." But says he, "if this goes through, every defense lawyer is going to say, 'If you've got a weak case, try the press...
Early on, Anthony Lewis, a New York Times columnist knowledgeable in the law, wrote that if Jersey higher courts are "wise enough to rescue the trial judge from his mistake" and narrow the material sought, "I think the reporter and the paper will face a compelling obligation to comply." In the emotional atmosphere around the Times newsroom, this was courageous counsel; it also appears to be what the Times is prepared...
...program seems to be succeeding. Infant mortality rates have declined in each of the regions served by the project. At New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the hub of a 16-hospital network in Manhattan and New Jersey that handles 16,000 births a year, the incidence of stillbirths, and deaths within seven days of life in infants weighing 2.2 lbs. or more has dropped from 22.8 per thousand births in 1967 to 9.6 per thousand in 1977. Many of these problem births were from the Harlem ghetto, and Administrator Dr. Solan Chao points out that quite...