Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swing vote in the decision, the man squarely in the middle, was Powell, who was never that sure he wanted to be a judge in the first place. Quiet, scholarly, wistful and widely respected for his legal acumen, he agreed in part with two different groups within the court. He accepted a portion of the opinion of the four Justices who upheld the California Supreme Court decision in favor of Bakke: Burger, William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens and Potter Stewart. He also sided in part with the four Justices who decided against Bakke: William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall...
Across the country, preservationists were jubilant over the decision. All 50 states and more than 500 municipalities already have preservation laws, but many of them have hesitated to designate commercial properties as landmarks for fear of legal challenges. Now, said Randall Scott, research director of Washington's Environmental Law Institute, "the court has reassured many communities that they can move rapidly on these cases...
...power, Begin has emerged as a mystic, a legalist, a man totally insensitive to any problems beyond those of Jewish Israel. He is tiresomely preachy in his talks with non-Israeli leaders, repeating to the point of boredom his odd fact-and-fiction litany of Jewish biblical and legal rights, his self-justification for Irgun atrocities and his blend of self-righteous arrogance...
DIED. Sir Dingle Foot, 72, British parliamentarian, globetrotting barrister and member of a remarkable political family; after choking on a sandwich; in Hong Kong, where he was on legal business. The son of a Liberal statesman, Dingle became an M.P. at 26. He swung to the Labor bench in 1956 and served as Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Solicitor General. When his younger brothers Hugh and Michael also became prominent in government, Tory critics joked that they were the country's "three Left feet...
...settling the case before the circuit court judges will even hear it. As a result, the number of cases settled or withdrawn before hearing last year in the Second was one-third higher than in the other circuits. If the case goes forward, further separation of wheat from legal chaff occurs. Purely technical motions that may obscure issues or delay hearings are quickly resolved. In simpler cases, lawyers are urged to make their points in typewritten "letter briefs" of no more than ten pages...