Word: traynor
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...press when it is threatened by official restrictions. The project is the result of an 18-month study by 14 jurists, educators and newsmen.* They proposed establishment of a 15-member council comprising journalists and others yet to be named. The chairman will be former California Chief Justice Roger Traynor...
...avoided trying to write a new edition of the Ten Commandments or an annotated edition of the seven deadly sins," says former California Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Traynor, head of the A.B.A. committee. "We don't have as many rhetorical, hortatory, pious expressions as they had in the old canons. We've tried to meet head-on the crucial issues...
Died. Harold J. ("Pie") Traynor, 72, former star third baseman and manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates; of emphysema; in Pittsburgh. Traynor joined the Pirates in 1920, and for the next 17 years his powerful hitting was matched only by his deft fielding at third base. He had a lifetime batting average of .320, drove in more runs than any other Pirate in history (1,273), and in 1948 was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. In 1969 U.S. sportswriters voted him the best third baseman in baseball history...
...Among legal scholars, Traynor is most admired for his contributions to one of the most arcane legal subjects-"conflicts of laws." Example: Should the law of Arizona, where an auto accident took place, or the law of California, where all the parties lived, determine the right of the accident victims to sue the estate of the allegedly negligent driver who was killed in the accident? California, said Traynor back in 1953 in an opinion still studied by law students all over the country...
...Despite his love for law, Traynor thinks that the country has too many laws, especially those that clog the courts with auto cases and those that "try to legislate morals." He has certainly studied the subject. Once a law professor at Berkeley (his alma mater), Traynor has enriched his judicial career with a prodigious flow of law-review articles. Next month he will return to scholarship as a visiting law professor at the University of Virginia. He also chairs an American Bar Association committee that is drafting a new code of ethics for judges in response to the Abe Fortas...