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...women lawyers who are trained," says Carla Hills, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Ford. Until 1977, only ten women had been named to the federal bench. During the Carter Administration, partly because of the establishment of 152 new judgeships, 41 women were named. "That," says Brooksley Landau, chairman of the A.B.A. federal judiciary committee, "was a real revolution...
...Gary H. Landau Jackson, Minn...
However, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has acted as Weinberg's associate counsel during the case, "remains optimistic," according to David Landau '72, an ACLU attorney and associate director of the Committee Against Registration and the Draft...
...made to "lie" legally. "You can't change history and pretend it never happened," says Douglas Watts, staff counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Expungement may hinder police trying to develop leads. It also could be used to shield police conduct from public scrutiny. Asks Jack Landau, head of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "How can you monitor the behavior of law enforcement if records are sealed?" Some businessmen, moreover, have legitimate grounds for digging into the past of prospective employees. Concedes University of Nebraska Law Professor Richard Harnsberger, a proponent of expungement: "If someone...
...Landau prefers a different safeguard: a statute banning unreasonable discrimination based on old convictions. Eight states, including New Jersey, now have such a law.* But these strictures mean that an ex-con with a beef about discrimination might have to file a lawsuit, generally a lengthy and expensive undertaking. Expungement supporters argue that cleaning a record is only fair. Says Nebraska's Harnsberger: "If you serve the penalty provided by the judicial system, you shouldn't have to pay a lot of other penalties," such as being rejected for jobs. There is a practical reason as well. Says...