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...there were literally tens of millions of potential plaintiffs, the defendant drug companies hoped that the courts would turn their backs on the whole morass on the ground that it was "unmanageable." But they did not reckon with Judge Lord, a former Minnesota attorney general who is the latest jurist to rule on the matter. "There are no unmanageable cases," he said. "There are only lazy judges." This week Lord will okay the last major settlement for American consumers. So far, the cases figure to cost the companies a total of $175 million in damages...
...good jurist, not a balanced judge and. if you had to select him, the least you could have done was to label him "Chief Prosecutor...
...York Daily Compass ran out of money. During Joe McCarthy's heyday, no one was hiring left-wing journalists. And by that time, Stone's leftist reputation was well-known; he was barred (and he still is) from the National Press Club in Washington for inviting a black jurist to lunch there once in the forties...
Modest and unimposing in speech and stature out of court, the 5-ft. 6-in. jurist towered and glowered from his bench, openly indignant at what he considered evasions and deceptions in testimony before him. He simply did not believe that the seven lowly burglars who had wiretapped Democratic National Committee headquarters at Washington's Watergate complex in June 1972 were a self-starting team working alone. Injudicially, some have argued, but undeniably in the higher national interest, as others would insist, he applied pressure until he got a scandal-bursting response. Once James W. McCord Jr. began...
...during the latest trial, Davis occasionally folded himself into the lotus position in the courtroom. David Dellinger, 58, the elder of the original Seven, has been ill, most recently with gall bladder trouble. And in place of the choleric Judge Hoffman, there was Judge Edward Gignoux, a calm, amiable jurist imported from Maine. After Gignoux found Dellinger guilty (there was no jury), the defendant said: "You blew this one, but at least it was possible to have a dialogue. You have proved that a judge can be decent, a judge can be honorable, a judge can be polite...