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...Marshall initiated a gender-bias study with two other lawyers, which found that women lawyers, are paid less and receive less respect than their male counterparts. The influential study prompted the SJC to form its own gender-bias investigating unit the following year...
Harvard Vice President and General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall is being considered for a slot on the Massachusetts Supreme Judiciary Court (SJC), The Boston Globe reported this week...
Last month, the Massachusetts Governor's Council confirmed Law School professor Charles Fried as a justice on the state's Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). No one can controvert Fried's qualifications as a scholar, but he does leave much to be desired in other areas. He has no experience as a jurist at the state level, and his political views will further submerge Massachusetts in the conservative tide initiated by Gov. William F. Weld...
Scholars of Fried's caliber certainly belong on the SJC, but we'd like to see a less conservative voice. Fried's appointment has not necessarily made the SJC more conservative (he replaced one), but his is the first of a slew of slots that will open in the next five years. The state's mandatory retirement age for justices will allow Weld and his successor to choose a majority for the court. Let's hope Weld's successor chooses judges with more concern for his or her constituents...
Other witnesses protested Fried's nomination onthe grounds that he is not a minority and will notcontribute to the diversity of the SJC...