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Agrees Washington circuit judge Carl McGowan, "When you go on the bench and you're grappling with individual cases, you find it difficult to implement any theory of judicial review...I find it hard for the good judge to pin any sort of label on himself." Should Ely ever don judicial robes, "he'd be tripped up sooner or later by a case that doesn't fit. Ely on the bench would not be Ely in the book...It would be an evil man who would disregard justice and law to follow his own theory," McGowan says...
...general counsel to the Department of Transportation, at the request of then-Secretary William Coleman, an old friend. In that capacity, he successfully argued in court that the controversial supreme jet, the Concorde, should be permitted to land in New York's Kennedy Airport on an experimental basis. Judge McGowan, who helped decide that case, recalls. He made one of the finest arguments I've ever heard." And then, of course, there's Democracy and Distrust--and the deanship...
...road and insensitive to class distinctions," such praise is noteworthy. But if Ely's colleagues are to be trusted, it suggests something more--that the vast recognition that has come John Hart Ely's way in the aftermath of Democracy and Distrust could scarcely he more deserved. Adds McGowan of Ely's legacy, "It's a book that every judge ought to read...
...compensation, divorce settlements and tort actions, see her in the mold of judges who exercise "judicial restraint." "She tends to be a literalist with acute respect for statutes," said Frank O'Connor's colleagues consider her decisions crisp and well written. "Mercifully brief and cogent," said McGowan. "Clear, lucid and orderly," said Frank. But one Supreme Court clerk finds her writing "perfectly ordinary-no different from any other 2,000 judges around the country...
...widely praised, the self-assured woman, who is of medium height and wears such sensible clothes as suits with silk blouses and matching ascots, is neither dull company nor dour. "She never forgets she's a lady-and she'll never let you forget," says Attorney McGowan. Yet Stanford Vice President Joel P. Smith recalls her as "the best dancer I've ever danced with" when he knew her as a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees. She does a nifty two-step and enjoys country music. A superb cook specializing in Mexican dishes, she, along...