Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine blackrobed justices spent just 24 minutes admitting 70 new attorneys to practice before them; then they retired to their spacious, book-lined conference room. There they devoted the rest of the week to deciding which of the appeals and petitions that had piled up during the summer merit consideration. By their choice of cases, the justices would determine the issues they will be ruling on in months ahead. "We are very quiet there," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said. "But it is the quiet of a storm center...
...responsibilities go beyond mere observance of the rules in the code of professional ethics. The lawyer must be "a guardian of due process," must "assert leadership in the struggle to maintain the philosophy of freedom under law," must accept a responsibility to help "educate our young people to the merit and genius of our complex form of Government...
Every year the U.S. Supreme Court receives hundreds of petitions from prisoners asking to have their cases reviewed. Many are handwritten on prison stationery, some are barely legible, most have no legal merit. But every now and then, one leads to an important decision. This year a handwritten letter from a Florida prisoner named Clarence Earl Gideon brought about a ruling that changed judicial procedures in several states and caused countless new trials in Florida...
Hormones & Cancer. For the Lasker clinical research award, the judges decided that the achievements of two men were of so nearly equal merit that even C.C.D. could not separate them. Checks for $5,000 each will...
...real merit of The American Scene is neither observation nor prophecy, but the sheer experience of James's sensitivity. Reading the book is like wading into a great pool of consciousness...