Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest in a series of punitive damage awards handed down by California's notably proconsumer juries, the Egan judgment shocked the insurance industry. It fears that juries everywhere will begin handing out huge awards in bad faith cases, despite the industry's complaint that genuine cases of wrongdoing are rare and reflect only isolated mistakes. Indeed more than 20 states in the past ten years have ruled that juries can award punitive damages in bad faith cases...
...Cultural Revolution, the last eight Western Christian workers in China, Roman Catholic nuns from a school for diplomats' children in Peking, were hounded across the border into Hong Kong by jeering Red Guards. Their crude expulsion seemed to symbolize Communist China's last judgment on four centuries of Western missionary endeavor...
...same time acting as a consultant for his law firm, which has among its clients many of the country's largest oil companies. Carter and the Senate will have to decide whether this dual position might represent a conflict of interest; Strauss says he will abide by that judgment...
Laws that spew from legislatures at the rate of over 100,000 a year inevitably mean more lawsuits. Too many lawyers use their skills to drag out cases. The object may be to wear down a less well financed opponent, or put off an unfavorable judgment. Sometimes it is simply a matter of greed, of contriving any excuse to keep fees rolling in. Favorite devices include making endless pretrial motions on one or another point of procedure, obtaining postponements (continuances) from the court, requesting huge amounts of information from the other side in the pretrial discovery process, or just burying...
Some judges simply cannot make up their minds. One California judge underwent psychoanalysis to get at the root of his inability to pass judgment. But a more fundamental problem is the way judges, particularly older ones, perceive their role. By training and tradition they are judges, not administrators or managers. That helps to explain why modern technology and management techniques have been almost totally ignored by the courts. "In a supermarket age we are like a merchant trying to operate a cracker barrel corner grocery store with the methods and equipment of 1900," said Burger in 1970. He spoke from...