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Inside the court, every seat was taken by the time the principals began arriving. Archibald Cox, Harvard law professor, former Solicitor General and special Watergate prosecutor, was resplendent in black cutaway, striped tie and a matching gray crew cut. So was Wade McCree, in the Solicitor General's traditional morning coat. At precisely 10 that Wednesday morning, the court clerk intoned "Oyez, oyez," and the nine black-robed Justices suddenly appeared from behind red velvet curtains and settled into their seats at the elevated bench. The stage was set for what could turn out to be the most important...
...from his mind. Ronnie had plans to make the Cornwell boys experts on the law he had so often flouted. "David and I used to joke about our careers," says Tony. "We were allowed to be anything we wanted, so long as it was a barrister or a solicitor." Tony's filial severance came when he finished reading law at Cambridge. The day after he was called to the bar he left England for the New World and a new career. More impressionable, David opted for Oxford and the life of a don. "My father longed to make...
...White House hopes that the fact that the brief was originally drafted by two blacks-Solicitor General Wade McCree and Assistant Attorney General Drew Days III-might help to mute some of the expected criticism...
...attorney waited until the Chicago Board of Trade had ended its trading for the week. Then Samuel Skinner dropped a bombshell on the world's largest commodity futures exchange. He announced four indictments ranging from mail fraud to income tax violations against one customer, one solicitor (a title analogous to stockbroker) and seven traders...
...laid down many of the principles of constitutional study and who is wellversed in American constitutional history. Born in St. Louis, Mo., he came to teach at Harvard in 1939, after serving as law clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and working in the Solicitor General's office during the 1930s...