Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secret." As before, Jenkins did not appear in person before the Senate Rules Committee, which is investigating the Bobby Baker case. He left the White House last October, after being arrested on a morals charge, and his lawyer and two psychiatrists testified that his appearance before the committee would cause such a strain as to endanger his health. Instead, Jenkins replied on paper, but under oath, to 40 written questions from the committee...
...District Judge William Harold Cox, 63, is by every accounting a first-rate lawyer, a hard-working jurist-and a tried and true Mississippian (he roomed with Senator Eastland at Ole Miss) who, since his appointment by President Kennedy in 1961, has made a habit of deciding against the Federal Government in civil rights cases. Last week he did it again...
...Freshman-orientation dance, he met Ann Donoghue, 17, daughter of a Houston lawyer. Ann took one look, dismissed her dreams of an operatic career and began to think about marriage. With respectful propriety, Lloyd twice asked Ann's father for her hand, twice was stalled. "The first time he deferred the matter to an indefinite later date. The second time, he was a little more adamant," remembers Lloyd. So Ann eloped. They were married in Newport, R.I., where Lloyd was attending the Navy's officers training school and living on seaman...
Judicial Lobbying. At first glance, C.C.C.L. might seem devoid of any right to argue a case to which it is not remotely a party. Originally, an amicus was simply a bystanding lawyer who offered a judge neutral legal advice. But as more and more private lawsuits began to affect public interests, amid became advocates, largely in appellate courts, for otherwise unrepresented third parties-business, labor, the states, even Congress. Today, amicus briefs may sometimes dwarf the arguments of nominal litigants-and be welcomed by courts as clarifiers of widely competing interests...
...arguments are thus recorded and may later bear fruit. In 1950, for example, the N.A.A.C.P., acting as amicus for a Negro who had been segregated in a railroad dining car, suggested overruling the separate-but-equal doctrine-a point that finally won school desegregation in 1954. Stress "important irrelevancies," Lawyer Charles Abrams of the American Jewish Congress once advised. Amid, he said, should provide "arguments that will salvage the judges' consciences or square with their prepossessions should they lean toward holding...