Word: jurists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stave off that calamity, the government had appointed a special commission, headed by noted Jurist Lord Wilberforce, to adjudicate the miners' demands. Its recommendation: an 11% to 24% raise, bringing the miners' wages up to a range of $59.80 to $89.70 per week. Union leaders voted first to reject the offer. But later, after a midnight bargaining session at 10 Downing Street, the union leaders agreed to submit the proposal directly to their members...
American Report. One argument Snezhnevsky was able to use privately was a report by a group of American psychiatrists, mental health officials and one eminent jurist, Washington Judge David Bazelon. They had toured Soviet mental hospitals in 1967 without perceiving any political abuse of psychiatric methods. Writing in the current New York Review of Books, Gadfly Journalist I.F. Stone details some of the evidence that both the World Psychiatric Association and the touring American doctors overlooked...
...with a Southern conservative that Nixon embarked on two of the nastiest fights of his presidency. Both South Carolina's Clement Haynsworth and Florida's G. Harrold Carswell were rejected by the Senate. The twin defeats infuriated Nixon, but he finally turned to Harry Blackmun, a diligent, uncontroversial Minnesota jurist who was quickly confirmed...
...Earlier, Nixon had attended the funeral of Justice Hugo Black, a jurist whose legal legacy Nixon still apparently hopes to dilute by appointing justices more likely to accept the Administration's arguments on law and order and civil rights issues...
Positive Gain. That is not the case in naming a successor to Black. Like Harlan, Black was a jurist who maintained that personal philosophy had no place in any judicial reckoning; yet he managed to read the same documents as Harlan and find different meanings in them. He was a passionate, literal exponent of free speech and a free press. He led the court into expanding the application of the Bill of Rights to cover state as well as federal actions. As the court was attacked for asserting the rights of criminal suspects or banning prayer in schools, Black would...