Word: judgments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Commenting on the decision, N.S.A. president Ed Schwartz said that the judge had contradicted himself by refusing jurisdiction while passing a summary judgment on the facts of the case. Judge Hart had ruled that the Hershey letter "had no legal effect whatsoever...
Judge Burger had one final observation. Any judgment that has the effect of frustrating the House action "would inevitably bring about a direct confrontation with a co-equal branch. Conflicts between federal branches are not merely unseemly but often destructive of important values. The checks and balances we boast of can check and balance just so far. Each branch may occasionally make errors for which there may be no effective remedy," but that "is one of the prices we pay for this independence, this separateness, of each co-equal branch and for the desired supremacy of each within its sphere...
...SERIES of research findings in the 1950's established beyond further doubt that a high proportion of automobile accidents, perhaps especially fatal accidents, involve alcohol. In association with other research establishing the significant pharmacological effect on driving skill and judgment of even low levels of blood alcohol content, and considering that three-quarters of the adult population of the United States uses alcohol in greater or lesser quantities, it readily came to be assumed, in the words of Dr. Julian A. Waller, "that the majority of drinking accidents are caused by the majority of drinking drivers, namely, the social drinkers...
Such legislation has not only been enacted but is being enforced, apparently, with considerable vigor, no doubt reflecting the judgment of the law enforcement authorities and the public alike that drinking is indeed a major cause of accidents, and one for which drivers must uniquely be held accountable...
...other hand, brute honesty is not particularly indicated; this is not an Ibsen's Wild Duck situation. You listen to something and you try to respond more or less the way you feel, within the bounds of judgment. You don't tell the patient, "We won't talk about that because I'm scared." What you might say is, "That's kind of a frightening idea." He may be frightened...