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...selecting a leading conservative jurist, the President hopes to shape the legal balance into the next century. -- Bork' s personal style and temperament are seemingly at odds with his strict constructionist philosophy. -- The seven Democratic presidential contenders fire mostly blanks in a Firing Line debate. -- A Texas boxcar turns into a grisly coffin...
Since Frankfurter's death in 1965, his reputation as a combative and principled jurist has endured. And so have reservations about his penchant for exerting policy influence in questionable ways. The latest fuss concerns his actions in the historic 1954 school-integration case Brown v. Board of Education. Philip Elman, 69, a former Frankfurter law clerk who served as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, says that while Brown was in progress Frankfurter regularly shared with him the confidential views of fellow Justices, which Elman later used when preparing Government briefs in the case...
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...
...arguing real lawsuits. On Divorce Court, the litigants are portrayed by actors, and the testimony, heavily spiced with tales of adultery and kinky sex, is scripted. The attorneys, however, are played by real lawyers, and the decision is left up to the judge, William B. Keene, a retired California jurist. On Superior Court, all the participants are played by actors, and the proceedings -- including the final decision by Judge William D. Burns Jr., a Los Angeles municipal-court commissioner -- are totally scripted to reflect the outcome of similar real-life cases. The Judge, with a title character played by Actor...
...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...