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...fictions that underlies civilized society is that the jurist is in some sense above mortal men. This is a convenient fiction, for without it there could be no law. Obviously, many judges in the past have been shown wrong; few of their contemporaries, however, are wise enough to say they...
...Government last week accused Federal Judge Luther W. Youngdahl of personal prejudice in favor of Owen Lattimore, and asked the jurist to disqualify himself from the bench during Lattimore's forthcoming trial on charges of perjury. In the past such action has come only after evidences of exceptionally flagrant abuse, yet the Government's case against Youngdalh is a flimsy one. Of Youngdahl has a bias, it apparently did not affect his judgment, for in dismissing these charges he was upheld by an overwhelming 8 to 1 majority in the Court of Appeals. The two counts this court reinstated were...
...Jurist who led newsmen on a 178-mile hike...
Henry G. Wenzel, Jr., judge in the New York Court of Appeals, was chief jurist...
...occupation was Andrei Vishinsky, now the Soviet Union's chief U.N. delegate, whom one Latvian witness last week branded as "the greatest murderer in the world." After the Russians retreated in 1941, Latvians in the capital city of Riga set up a commission, headed by a jurist named Atis Grantskalns, to document Vishinsky & Co.'s murders. Last week Grantskalns told of finding 979 bodies of Latvians killed by the Communist conquerors. The victims, he said, included intellectuals, teachers, army officers, government officials-"the leaders of our communities...