Word: parvin
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Dates: during 1969-1969
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...fighting judicial impropriety." His favorite tactic is to move that a judge disqualify himself from a case because of alleged bias. During a 1966 suit calling for reapportionment of city-council electoral districts, Skolnick discovered that Federal Judge William J. Campbell had once been a director of the Albert Parvin Foundation. He charged that the foundation had ties with Chicago gamblers and political bosses.* Whatever the truth of the accusation, Campbell named two prominent lawyers to hear the evidence for him. As a result of their report, he ordered the district boundaries redrawn by November...
...Black, however, have thus far refused to go along. Though Douglas has resigned from his $12,000-a-year presidency of the Parvin Foundation, his lec ture agent reported that he has not stopped booking speaking engagements...
...Fortas was gone from the Supreme Court, and Associate Justice William O. Douglas had severed his questionable connection with the Albert B. Parvin Foundation, but the court remained enmeshed in controversy over ethics. This time Douglas provided the target...
...ludicrous to suggest that the Associate Justice would risk compromising his integrity for a $350 magazine article. Douglas' probity was more seriously challenged on the Parvin connection, after Albert Parvin inexplicably made public a file of his personal papers and financial dealings. Among other things, it included a May 12 letter from Douglas dismissing charges that he had been indiscreet in counseling the foundation. "The strategy is to get me off the court," he wrote Parvin, a Los Angeles multimillionaire businessman. The Justice's bitterness was aimed at the Internal Revenue Service, which has been investigating the Parvin...
Unanswered Questions. Certainly Douglas' ties with Parvin were not comparable to Fortas' involvement with the Wolfson Family Foundation and its founder, jailed Financier Louis Wolfson. Yet there were some curious links between the two cases. For one thing, Parvin had been named a co-conspirator -but was never tried-in a securities-law violation case along with Louis Wolfson. Moreover, the Parvin Foundation derived its income from Albert Parvin's ties with Las Vegas gambling operations. This raised a question similar to the central issue of the Fortas affair: Should a Supreme Court Justice be judged...