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Judge Learned Hand, 79, once. called "the greatest living American jurist" by the late Supreme Court Justice Cardozo, announced that he was retiring from his seat on the United States court of appeals, second circuit, after 42 years on the federal bench. Nominated by the New York City Bar Association as a successor: Federal District Judge Harold Medina...
Austin W. Scott, Dane Professor of Law said that Hand is "One of our greatest judges--a man who combines all the features necessary to a great jurist: those of the lawyer and the philosopher who studies all matters...
...Ulrich, 62, who as presiding judge of the Moscow purge trials in the '305 teamed up with Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky to doom scores of erstwhile comrades, won for himself the tag of "Stalin's Executioner," the reputation of having pronounced more death sentences than any other "jurist" alive; of undisclosed causes; in Moscow...
...trite ("In any battle ... fight like hell.") This life of Holmes centers mostly on his paternal attitude towards the "bright young Harvard scamps" who were his secretaries, and on his walks through various parks in the spring. It misses the flavor of both Holmes the man and Holmes the jurist...
...Devout Sex. Far from being an "enthusiast" himself, Msgr. Knox is sometimes unable to suppress a faint shudder at the uncouth excesses with which his subject compels him to deal. But for the most part he treats his material with the warm antiquarian relish of a jurist whose hobby is delving into the idiosyncrasies of safecrackers...