Word: jurists
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...including one prohibiting mandatory Bible reading in public schools, and another forbidding state criminal prosecutors to use evidence seized during illegal searches. To avoid conflict-of-interest charges, he retired from the court in 1967 when his son Ramsey was appointed Attorney General, but remained an active circuit-riding jurist, the first judge to sit in all eleven U.S. Courts of Appeals...
Candidate for Attorney General . . . As a circuit-court judge on U.S. Court of Appeals is ranking woman jurist in the U.S. . . . Age 51 . . . Born in Denver . . . Graduated from University of New Mexico and Stanford Law . . . For ten years practiced law with her husband in Los Angeles . . . Was special consultant to California attorney general on Colorado River litigation . . . Was appointed to Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1961, to California Court of Appeals in 1966, and in 1968 to her current assignment-one that takes her from Los Angeles through nine states (including Hawaii and Alaska) and Guam . . . Has generally liberal...
...government has severely curtailed the discretion of Sweden's capitalists in using their wealth and managing their businesses. Observes Stockholm University Jurist Gustaf Lindencrona: "As long as you use your money to raise productivity, the government won't do anything against it. But if people want to consume their money, the government will keep them from doing it." The aim has been to foster what the Social Democrats call "social" rather than "antisocial" uses of ownership. This will be furthered by legislation that takes effect next year, encouraging all management decisions to be subject to collective bargaining with...
...group of lawyers to appear in court, underlies Burger's campaign to require special training and certification of trial lawyers in the U.S. The Chief Justice has also been fighting for prison reform and to increase salaries of federal judges. (Critics claim he has even urged a resigning jurist or two to exaggerate his financial plight.) He has also done his rhetorical best to jog congressional creation of additional federal judgeships...
...town," says the woman from Rocky Mount, N.C. In 1926 she was the only woman in her class at the University of North Carolina Law School. In 1949 she was appointed the first woman special judge on the state's superior court, where her reputation as both a compassionate jurist and an incisive legal scholar endeared her to voters. In 1962 they elected her the first woman associate justice on the state supreme court and in 1974 they promoted her to chief justice. She has voted against reinstating a mandatory death penalty, upheld the state's right to use funds...