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...Dyson, who argued that forcing GE to meet such strict standards could force the plants to close and cost badly needed jobs. Meanwhile a state-appointed hearing officer has been taking testimony from both sides in the case. In a 77-page interim opinion issued last February, Professor Abraham Sofaer of Columbia Law School found GE "overwhelmingly" responsible for the PCB pollution of the Hudson and ordered it to take steps to reduce its discharges of the chemical. Sofaer also found that the state had "exercised insufficient caution and concern" in controlling PCB pollution of the river...
...many, change seems inevitable. Columbia Law Professor Abraham Sofaer believes that the increase of plea bargaining, no-fault insurance, smaller juries and non-unanimous verdicts are all signs of an erosion of "classical notions of Anglo-Saxon justice." Chief Justice Warren Burger seeks higher educational and other standards for those admitted to the trial bar in the hope of eliminating frivolous, time-consuming contentiousness. New York Federal Judge Marvin E. Frankel points to a much deeper problem in the procedural games that adversary attorneys play. Because they often use the rules to trample the truth, Frankel has gently proposed thinking...
...then that all such cases must be dismissed? Surely not. Or that an impartial jury can be found only among the exceptionally oblivious? If so, then presumably Galley or the Watergate defendants could only be tried by twelve idiot cousins of Gomer Pyle. Says Columbia Law School Professor Abraham Sofaer: "No one has the right to get away with a crime that is so notorious everybody knows about...
...balance, however, other scholars hold that the effect of the Supreme Court's action is likely to place limits on the power of the presidency. The significance of the court's opinion, says Columbia University Law Professor Abraham Sofaer, lies in its assertion that "Executive privilege does not mean Executive whim. The President does not have absolute discretion and is subject to the rules of law." Though the court gave theoretical sanction to Executive privilege, it also created a precedent for overriding the President's authority to invoke it. That precedent may yet turn...
...good. But just how hard has Jaworski's office been bargaining? Both Krogh and Colson were apparently allowed to enter pleas without first telling the prosecutors what they know. Recalling the deals he made as a federal prosecutor, Columbia Law Professor Abraham Sofaer says, "I always made sure what the evidence was. The individual involved has to become an ally of the Government in all respects...