Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justice," U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren once wrote, "is the capacity to generalize and make objective one's private sense of wrong." Last week Chief Justice Warren's court generalized its way into two specific surprises that rocked the FBI and its chief, J. Edgar Hoover, raised legal brows and shook corporate board rooms across the U.S. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Direction Disputed, The Jencks Case, The Du Pont Case and BUSINESS, The $2.7 Billion Question...
...Hero!" Into the uproar stepped the President. "Actually, the Japanese courts have been eminently fair," said Dwight Eisenhower at his weekly news conference, "and our legal people have reported that . . . Japanese legal procedures [are] based upon very great concern for the rights of the individual and justice to him. [And] if any possible injustice happened to that man, it would be a case that would be taken up diplomatically, of course...
...London in 1951 and ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1953. This NATO treaty grants the U.S. primary jurisdiction over G.I.s in a NATO country who get in trouble while on duty, or who commit offenses against other U.S. citizens. The treaty generally grants the "host" NATO country primary legal jurisdiction when G.I.s commit off-duty, off-base offenses that can range from running red lights to rape...
...foreign courts, the U.S. is extending around the world its concern for and its principles of justice and law. And under the status-of-forces agreements now operative, the U.S. conveys to the world that it is not in the empire-building business, that its concern for legal right is couched in its own example...
Perkins illustrated Hughes' legal career with such examples as his work in the Scottsboro Case and Minnesota Rate Cases. These, he stated, showed how the former Chief Justice "went beyond the legal forms and looked at the facts...