Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world, the government issued a 500-word countercharge notable only for its ineptness. Quoting "authoritative circles in Athens," the statement, issued in English as was Seferiades' own message, accused Seferiades of being a Communist agent. It also suggested that he had spoken "to counterbalance and neutralize the inexorable law of wear and tear and oblivion, which was a natural consequence of nothing but biological causes responsible for his intellectual barrenness and absence from the field in literature." Presumably this was a way of saying that Seferiades is senile, but it was difficult to tell. Under the ruling junta, authoritative...
...good reasons why even the best experts should disagree. One is that only difficult borderline mental cases ever get to court in the first place. Defendants who show obvious symptoms of illness are committed to institutions immediately, as incompetent to stand trial. The offenders who are left, Yale Law School Professor Abraham S. Goldstein points out, are usually men who seem calm in the dock even though they may have been seriously disordered at the time of the crime...
...opinion of a man's mental state, they bridle at being asked to say whether a man should be blamed for a specific act, since this goes well beyond the frontiers of their expertise. Frederick Hacker, a psychiatrist who teaches at the University of Southern California's law center, expresses a common professional view when he says " 'Should we blame him?' is a moral question, not a medical question...
...opinions are not always carefully read-even by those most directly concerned." Stewart's gibe may have seemed excessive to those who have read some of the court's "carefully written opinions," particularly when it is remembered that the Solicitor General, a former dean of the Harvard Law School, has had ample experience at the task...
Nonetheless, Griswold would probably be content to swallow the rebuke if he could be certain that the substance of Stewart's statement is supported by other members of the court. But Stewart, who generally gives greater weight to the claims of law enforcement than the other justices, was speaking solely for himself. And even he did not come out clearly for the inchamber proceeding. Thus the Government has no assurance that the court will hold that the issue of a bug's legality can be decided privately...