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...done to them, are morally compelling claims worthy of full-dress legal battle. Although the Japanese have a highly developed sense of individual rights, social harmony, not personal justice, is the basis of their law. Litigation, never common, has actually decreased during the past 15 years. As the distinguished jurist Takenori Kawashima wrote in 1967, "We think of the law as a hereditary family sword . . . an ornament rather than a means for enforcing the power of the government to control the daily life of our society...
...women with children and that a California state disability plan was not discriminatory, even though it excluded pregnancy as a disability. If Harrington wants to stir things up a little more, she might speculate on whether the country's first woman Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, was more a jurist or a feminist. Her deciding vote in a case establishing
...internal détente to William P. Clark, 50, who became Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser five weeks ago. The transition from the State Department, where he served as Heiig's ranking deputy, to the basement of the White House West Wing brought the former California jurist from relative obscurity to one of the most important jobs in the Administration and immediately raised questions about his future. Would Clark become a rival to Haig? Would he attain as much rank and prestige as the White House troika, altering the tenuous balance among Edwin Meese, James Baker...
Before First Monday ends, a mere 45 minutes later, Loomis has turned jurist-detective, implicated a long-time boyfriend in a major political scandal and developed something more than a good working relationship with her former foe, Justice Snow...
...this outlook, not surprisingly, surfaces in Lord's assessment of her own career. She frequently refers to her attempts at juggling marriage, children, and a career. In a piece on Sandra Day O'Connor, President Reagan's choice for the first female Supreme Court Justice, Lord commiserated with the jurist, writing. "I can guess at the hard choices that Judge O'Connor must have made to succeed...