Word: jurists
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People's Court, with its busy agenda of disputes over defective products, mischievous pets and nettlesome neighbors, caught on quickly. The show is now watched by more than 18 million viewers on 184 stations, and its presiding jurist, retired California Judge Joseph A. Wapner, has become a cult hero. Its success was followed in 1984 by a revival of the venerable series Divorce Court, now seen on 150 stations. This fall two more TV tribunals have been convened: Superior Court, which re-enacts civil and criminal cases (132 stations), and The Judge, dramatizing disputes in family court (81 stations...
...Cambridge native graduated in 1930 from Harvard Law School, where he studied under acclaimed jurist Felix Frankfurter. He received an honorary law degree in 1958, was a senior member of the Society of Fellows, and served as president of the Board of Overseers three decades...
...with well- established judicial track records. The Reaganauts did not want to be rudely surprised. They were mindful that Dwight Eisenhower's choice of Chief Justice, Earl Warren, had seemed like a moderate Republican as Governor of & California and promptly turned out to be an innovative liberal as a jurist. A short list of half a dozen contenders was drawn up. It did not include any of Reagan's old political buddies, such as Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and former Interior Secretary William Clark. The President's instructions had the effect of eliminating Attorney General Edwin Meese from consideration. Meese...
Scalia was given first crack at an interview with Reagan, and again the President wasted no time. After trading a few anecdotes with the congenial jurist about old judges they had known, Reagan offered, and Scalia accepted. The tidiness of the selection process pleased the President's advisers; Reagan was spared from ever having...
...evenings are evidence of Scalia's engaging sociability, but it is his combination of affability and acumen, of energetic fervor and astringent intellect, that makes him potentially one of the most influential of Justices. The Reagan Administration could hardly have invented a jurist whose views are more perfectly consistent with its own philosophy--or a sharper advocate of that philosophy...