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...President of Panama was impeached last week. The charge: that he violated a constitutional provision that prohibits the President from giving "direct or indirect official aid to a candidate." President Marco Aurelio Robles, 62, who cannot succeed himself by law and thus is not running in the May 12 presidential elections, was charged with aiding Finance Minister David Samudio, 57. Robles was accused of allowing his press office to release an official announcement of support, attending a fund-raising banquet for Samudio and writing a letter recommending Samudio's presidential candidacy to his Liberal Party directorate. Since the coalition...
Similar problems have stymied other attempts to cut waiting periods. A law in California that requires elimination of the criminal backlog has meant that, where necessary, civil judges are pulled off to hear criminal cases; that, of course, has contributed to an increase in the civil case jam. Nonetheless there is a growing recognition of the principle that justice delayed is justice denied. Congress, at the President's urging, has established a Federal Judicial Center that will, as of March 27, begin studying the problems...
...over to non-judges such relatively minor responsibilities as running small-claims and traffic courts. But if the reformers can decide which or how many of the proposed changes are worthwhile, and can get them implemented, they will have worked a minor miracle. Until now, few problems in the law have received more lip service and less real attention than the problem of congested courts...
...Student Bar Association of Howard's law school is also seeking an injunction: this one against the university officials to compel them to reopen the school...
Marc P. Fairman, a first-year law student who helped direct the Students for Rockefeller draft group, said last night there "was little hope left." The student group will probably disband with individuals going their own ways, he added...