Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kunstler's admirers, many of them highly respected lawyers, note that what is nonsense today often makes sense tomorrow. "My impression is that the most creative things in the law usually sound unacceptable and unlikely," says Professor Leroy Clark of New York University Law School. "This is the creative side of Kunstler. He comes up with things that make you think...
...judges were all litigants, who would preside over their case? The State Supreme Court appointed Judge William John Beer of the neighboring Sixth Circuit. To represent them, the judges hired a Detroit law firm. This vas one case, however, in which the attorneys clearly benefited from the advice of their clients. The plaintiffs' 50-page brief was dazzling in its logic and citations from past decisions...
...workmen in summer have disappeared. Meanwhile, oilmen and speculators have applied for 5,000 new leases on tracts all over the state. Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, whose tribes were there before the white men, originally claimed 469,000 sq. mi. (80% of the state) under an old, almost-forgotten law. Now they are asking the Interior Department for a settlement of 62,500 sq. mi. and $500 million. Interior has so far refused, and ultimate settlement will be up to the next Administration...
Moving to Marion, Ohio, young Harding dabbled in teaching, browsed briefly over law books, sold insurance, played his cornet at the roller-skating rink, and rode the bench as substitute first baseman on the town's ball club. He also began to master perhaps his most highly developed skill: draw poker...
Brooke's campaign was very instructive. Thomas Atkins, a black Boston City Councillor from Roxbury and Harvard Law School, must have been watching. He's apparently learned the technique very well, though he was slower than Brooke to apply...