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...Chief Justice Arthur Vanderbilt (TIME, Feb. 21, 1955), is hardworking, respected by lawyers, who have often found themselves discomfited because Brennan "sometimes catches you off guard." His opinions are clear, thoughtful, moderate; his mind is quick and sharp. As chairman of a New Jersey committee on calendar control and pretrial conference procedure, he helped give the state a commendable record in clearing congested court dockets. Earlier this year, he addressed the U.S. Attorney General's special conference on congestion in the courts, impressed Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Labor Secretary James Mitchell, who worked with Brennan during World...
...games at Melbourne this November. The U.S. team will automatically be picked from the top men in the Olympic tryouts at month's end, but Sime's injury was not likely to heal in time to let him first qualify in the 200 meters at a pretrial meet this week in the National A.A.U. championships at Bakersfield, Calif. Fortunately, Sime qualified in the 100-meter dash (time: a fair 0:10.6) last week in the intercollegiate championships at Berkeley, Calif, before pulling up lame...
...Barnes set that notion to rest. He has disposed of 107 of the inherited cases-but only eleven were dismissed by motion of the Government. Thirty-one of the cases were won by the Government in court, eight were lost, and 57 were settled by consent decrees reached in pretrial negotiations...
...used in Judge Vanderbilt's New Jersey, the pretrial conference has shortened trials by from a third to a half. Vanderbilt notes-and condemns-the tendency of judges in some jurisdictions to use the conference to force settlements, but he contends that even without such coercion three out of four cases are settled soon after the pretrial conferences. Reason: the conference gives each litigant knowledge of his own weakness and his adversary's strength...
Vanderbilt says that with the various pretrial procedures at a judge's disposal there is no reason why, having also heard the evidence and the arguments at the trial, he cannot make his decision at once in cases without a jury. Says Vanderbilt: "He will never know more about it than he does at that time. The moment for decision has arrived, before other cases intervene to dull and blur his grasp of the pending case...