Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attorney general, and chairman of the A.B.A. Committee on the Federal Judiciary, told the Senate that he saw no conflict in Haynsworth's action. John Frank, a liberal Democrat who serves on the Advisory Committee on Civil Procedure of the Judiciary Conference, stated flatly that "there was no legal ground for disqualification...
...separate petitions asked the court to overturn the ruling of the Election Commission. Boston attorney Alan Rosenberg, representing members of the Rent Control Referendum Committee-including Hilary Putnam, Professor of Philosophy-said that very legal requirement has been met by the committee. He argued that the sole duty of the Election Commission is to determine if all requirements have been met and not to decide the legality of the proposed ordinance...
peated Rosenberg's arguments. He cited the Massachusetts statute on referenda which states that once all legal requirements have been met "the referendum shall go on the ballot." He pointed out that the statute makes no reference to the legality of the bill itself...
...Post-Conviction Rights and Remedies, a conference course including field studies and taught by Harold R. Washington, an attorney currently participating in the Clinical-Legal Education Program at Harvard Law School...
Most of the elements of the new plan had been suggested last spring, Brown said, but the summer was used to work out the kinks and to check the legality. The Coop's general counsels, Louis Loss, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, and William D. Andrews, professor of Law and the Boston firm of Peabody, Brown, Rowley, and Storey have managed to pull the changes into a coherent, workable, legal plan, Brown said...