Word: jurists
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Died. Lord Oaksey, 90, the brusque British jurist who, as president of the International Military Tribunal, dominated the Nuremberg trials; in Malmes-bury, England. Widely known for his sense of courtroom propriety, Lord Oaksey, then Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, provided a dramatic conclusion to the proceedings when he imposed the death sentence on twelve of the 22 major Nazi defendants...
...Parliament "for the Liberty of Unlicenced Printing." Hard-won democratic tradition insists that a free press is vital to an informed electorate: Anglo-American law has generally rejected any Government right to license a newspaper or censor its publication for any reason. William Blackstone, the great 18th century English jurist, stated the basic proposition: "The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publication, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matters when published. Every free man has an undoubted right to lay what...
...Southern Strategy was unsound, for it appealed to the baser instincts of the South. But it also right fully acknowledged the necessity of restoring the region's sense of belonging to the rest of the nation, of bringing the South into national political councils. The appointment of a Southern jurist to the Supreme Court was an admirable goal. But Nixon chose poorly in both his attempts. His efforts to slow the completion of school integration and to prevent busing as a means of racially balancing the South's schools were likewise ill-conceived, and the Supreme Court has rebuked...
...wealthy jurist, Justin (George C. Scott) goes insane when his wife dies and fancies himself Sherlock Holmes, complete with Inverness coat, underslung pipe and austere vanity. His brother-in-law tries to have Justin put into an institution to gain control of his fortune. Faced with "Holmes," the asylum assigns a real psychiatrist named Watson (Joanne Woodward). Even though the sex is wrong, the Baker Street Irregular decides that she is the Dr. Watson ("Elementary, my dear"), and the shrink goes along with the gag. Soon the two are tooling along in Manhattan in pursuit of a villain known inevitably...
...court starts its 180th year next week, however, many observers look to Nixon's second appointee, Justice Harry A. Blackmun. A private, studious, moderate jurist of 61, Blackmun could emerge as the court's pivotal figure. He may have the deciding vote in many important cases. With Republican appointees in the majority, suggests University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland, a leading court watcher, the Burger Court may steer slightly away from the Warren Court's judicial activism-but hardly toward the conservatism that "Vice President Agnew and Attorney General Mitchell are seeking to create...