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Former U.S. Solicitor General Charles Fried, who is now Beneficial professor of law at Harvard, said yesterday that the Supreme Court’s decision to grant the government’s appeal was “inevitable...
...solicitor general’s office essentially said that there is no constitutional limit to putting conditions on funding,” said FAIR founder Kent Greenfield, a professor of law at Boston College. “If they win, it’s the largest expansion of government prerogatives in a generation...
...screening process is not that narrowly focused, protests Grover ("Rocky") Rees III, who is Meese's special assistant for judicial selection. "We don't have any litmus test." Perhaps not, but the checking procedure has derailed the nomination of the Justice Department's own Deputy Solicitor General, Andrew Frey, for, among other things, his support of an antihandgun group. It also disqualified Judith Whittaker, a highly rated Republican lawyer from Kansas City, for supporting the Equal Rights Amendment...
Then, in a surprise move, New Zealand Solicitor-General Paul Neazor declared that the prosecution had agreed to reduce the charges against the French agents to manslaughter since the defendants had acted only "in support of those who actually placed the explosives." Prieur and Mafart then coolly pronounced their guilty pleas. The entire proceeding lasted 32 minutes. The couple, who had entered New Zealand last June 22 on false Swiss passports, will remain in custody until their scheduled sentencing...
...before alumni on the subject earlier this year, Corporate Law Professor Robert Clark, a leading opponent of the crits, charged that they had purposively created "prolonged, intense, bitter conflict" and engaged in "a ritual slaying of the elders." One wounded elder is Professor Paul Bator, a former U.S. deputy solicitor general. After 26 years at Harvard, he is moving in January to the more congenial precincts of the University of Chicago Law School, a redoubt of legal conservatism. Calling the C.L.S. movement a force for "philistinism" and "mediocrity," Bator believes that the intellectual integrity and academic excellence of Harvard...