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...both for being too leisurely and for moving too precipitately, especially in cases involving broad social issues. In an address marking his 30th year on the bench, Irving R. Kaufman, chief judge of the Manhattan-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, offered a defense of the jurist's craft...
That shooting in downtown Rome, carried out by a member of the dreaded Red Brigades, was one of three brazen assassinations of Italian judicial officials last week. Terrorists also gunned down noted Jurist Guido Galli in a corridor of Milan University and killed State Prosecutor Nicola Giacumbi as he walked home with his wife in Salerno. The resurgence of terrorist violence (18 victims this year) has heightened national tensions to a more alarmed level than at any other time since the kidnap-murder of Politician Aldo Moro nearly two years ago. Last week public morale received a further blow when...
...shoddy and poorly thought out. Of one Burger opinion dealing with court-ordered school busing in Detroit, Justice Lewis Powell is quoted as saying, "If an associate in my law firm had done this, I'd fire him." Fickle and unprincipled, the authors claim, Burger is a jurist who can write, a very liberal opinion on race discrimination, just so that his critics cannot easily pigeonhole him as a conservative. He is certainly no leader. "On ocean liners," Justice Potter Stewart reportedly told clerks at one point, "they used to have two captains. One for show, to take...
Along the way Cambridge produced its share of notables: botanist Louis Agassiz, jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, actor Walter Brennan, cartoonist Al Capp and camera mogul Edwin Land. "Even Josiah Bartlett, the man who wrote Bartlett's Quotations, lived here," Dickerson said...
Colleagues on both sides of the bench describe Judge Hufstedler as lively and vivacious, and an extremely able jurist. She turns out about 100 opinions a year, which are usually well written and well reasoned. Her decisions have been popular with liberals, civil rights leaders and women. She is considered a moderate to liberal Democrat, but she calls herself "independent minded." Says she: "I'm not a political creature...