Word: jurists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jurist is challenged for his blunt courtroom remarks...
...take the politics" out of judicial appointments, Reagan named Clark a superior court judge in San Luis Obispo County without even consulting the local judicial committee. Reagan subsequently nominated him to the court of appeals and in 1972 to the prestigious state supreme court. Clark was an extremely conservative jurist, competent if not distinguished. Then, as now, he was willing to acknowledge his limitations and depend heavily on a good research staff...
...done to them, are morally compelling claims worthy of full-dress legal battle. Although the Japanese have a highly developed sense of individual rights, social harmony, not personal justice, is the basis of their law. Litigation, never common, has actually decreased during the past 15 years. As the distinguished jurist Takenori Kawashima wrote in 1967, "We think of the law as a hereditary family sword . . . an ornament rather than a means for enforcing the power of the government to control the daily life of our society...
...women with children and that a California state disability plan was not discriminatory, even though it excluded pregnancy as a disability. If Harrington wants to stir things up a little more, she might speculate on whether the country's first woman Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, was more a jurist or a feminist. Her deciding vote in a case establishing
...internal détente to William P. Clark, 50, who became Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser five weeks ago. The transition from the State Department, where he served as Heiig's ranking deputy, to the basement of the White House West Wing brought the former California jurist from relative obscurity to one of the most important jobs in the Administration and immediately raised questions about his future. Would Clark become a rival to Haig? Would he attain as much rank and prestige as the White House troika, altering the tenuous balance among Edwin Meese, James Baker...