Word: traynor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court that has been fiercely attacked as too civil-libertarian in everything from criminal cases to de facto school segregation, the arguments had a troublesome ring. Section 26 might indeed involve state action, but "the question is," mused Chief Justice Roger Traynor, "what's so wrong, about that action?" Traynor seemed to be looking to the difficult decision ahead as well as the involved arguments that he had just heard when he finally ended the debate with a sigh: "I don't know how you feel, Counsel, but I'm awfully tired...
...Triennial Coif Award ($1,000) is for legal writing "that evidences creative talent of the highest order." Selected by six leading legal lights, such as Justice Roger J. Traynor of the California Supreme Court, the first recipient is Duke University's shy, witty, brilliant Law Professor Brainerd Currie, 52, author of 1963's Selected Essays on the Conflict of Laws, a seminal, formidable tome that Currie characteristically dedicated "To My Wife, who has suffered more from these essays than any mere reader...
...Three Meet, and second by a close margin in the Hops, Harvard finished incredibly badly in the IC4A meet. Since-departed Ed Hamlin was the first Crimson runner to finish, in 25th place. Meehan was 35th and Crain 102nd, as Villanova's Vic Zwolak and Pat Traynor ran away with the race...
...Traynor has graduated, but Zwolak will lead a strong Wildcat squad in the defense of its team title. The top contenders are expected to be Michigan State, which has won the meet five of the last seven years, Georgetown, and Notre Dame. Heptagonals champion Cornell rates an outside chance...
With 330 yards left in the race, Mullin was five yards behind Rawson and Traynor; at that point, all chance for victory seemed lost. But with a surge Mullin caught his two opponents, and after a three-man struggle that covered 70 yards, he pulled ahead to stay...