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...Suffolk Superior Court Judge Thomas R. Morse Jr. '48 has extended until Friday a deadline--originally set for yesterday--for Boston Mayor Kevin H. White and the City Council to agree on a proposal for securing $30 million needed to finance the city's public school system for the remainder of the year...
With a battery of 206 judges, the Los Angeles County Superior Court system is one of the largest in the U.S. Nevertheless, since prosecutors and litigious Californians flood the court with more than 220,000 cases annually, and since criminal matters have priority, it takes more than four years for the average civil jury suit to reach trial. Now some lawyers are beating the queue. The solution: hiring a retired judge to hear the case...
...lawyers. They found that an obscure 1872 California law authorizes litigants to have any civil case heard by hired referees, who need not be judges or even lawyers. The pair signed up a retired judge and got the approval of then Presiding Judge Richard Schauer of Los Angeles County Superior Court. Within seven months they had a decision; its relative speed saved their clients some $100,000 in attorneys' fees...
...Karen Bray, a 29-year-old North Cambridge resident, agrees that Fresh Pond is superior to the Charles for running, although the Charles River toepaths provide courses varying from one mile to 17 miles for the entire circuit...
...flooding the country, the agency now numbers some 1,500 special agents, up from 389 at the time of Kennedy's assassination. Once selected, a recruit is dispatched to offices around the country to help track down counterfeiters and pursue stolen or forged Government checks and bonds. Only superior agents are eventually picked to serve in the protection service, which is responsible for guarding not only the President, the Vice President and their families, but also presidential candidates and former Presidents...