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...rate, Hakim will not be going back immediately. On October 22, his lawyer, David Nelson, appeared in Equity Session of Suffolk Superior Court, and obtained a restraining order postponing the execution of the extradition order to December 17. In the mean time, efforts are being made in Missouri to overturn his original conviction. Nelson has also filed a writ of habeas corpus in an attempt to kill the extradition proceedings...
Scholars have lambasted court rulings that go back as far as the seminal Marbury v. Madison decision (1803), which asserted the court's power to overturn congressional legislation. They gasp at the Dred Scott case (1857), which denied that a Negro could be a U.S. citizen. They are still apoplectic over Koreinatsu v. U.S. (1944), complaining of its shabby justification for interning 70,000 Japanese-American citizens. Just as they winced throughout the Warren years, they are beginning to look askance at the Burger era. Says University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland: "We have no evidence yet that...
...favor of mere results, says Stanford's Gerald Gunther, a decision may be "valid only as long as you have a majority of five votes. As the reasons get weaker, a later judge is freer to follow his own likes and dislikes. A decision is then easier to overturn...
...Husband John Mitchell's Justice Department against desegregation by busing (see THE NATION). "We should extinguish the Supreme Court," she decreed. "We have no youth on the court, no Southerners, no women-just nine old men. I have never been so furious. Nine old men should not overturn the tradition of America...
...breaks to the politically friendly owners of several industrial and commercial properties. The upshot was a $9,000,000 rise in the valuations for eleven buildings, which will yield the city and county $1,000,000 a year more in taxes unless the owners can persuade the courts to overturn the increase. The nation needs fewer but better-trained chief assessors-certainly no more than one per county. They should be appointed and subject to strict supervision by state review boards that could also provide specialized expertise for such complex tasks as valuing one-of-a-kind industrial complexes. Among...