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...ruled unconstitutional another Louisiana law requiring the N.A.A.C.P. to reveal its membership lists. Last year, serving on a special three-judge federal court, Wisdom defended the legality of the Civil Rights Commission's investigative procedures, although the other two judges voted against him. The Supreme Court later upheld Wisdom's dissent...
...tradition-minded Democrat who passed the bar exam at 19 after "reading law" in the office of a family friend, won his court appointment in 1951. In his handful of segregation cases, Rives has invariably decided for liberalism, but not always without a twinge of regret: in April, he upheld a ruling of District Court Judge Frank Johnson Jr. that Montgomery could not segregate its public parks, but noted that the decision was a Pyrrhic one for the Negro plaintiffs since the city was sure to close the parks rather than obey (it did). Last year also, in the Goldsby...
...probably faced more tough segregation cases than any other Southern judge. Johnson is crisply tough on lawyers, does not always side with the Government in civil rights cases. He handed down the original decisions desegregating Montgomery's parks and bus lines; last February, however, he upheld the expulsion of six Negroes from Alabama College for taking part in a racial demonstration, sharply chided them for improperly violating public order. "If you compliment me because you think it's good law, I appreciate it," he says. "If you compliment me because you like the decision...
Doctors also have been sued for failing to spell out risks. Notes one recent decision: "The plaintiff may expect his claim to be upheld if he avers that his right to make his own decisions, based on the nature of his disease, was thwarted by the doctor's concealment." Earlier this year, after a Kansas woman suffered burns from radioactive cobalt therapy for her breast cancer, her physician was judged negligent-even though the treatment was skillfully performed-simply because he failed to tell her there was a risk of radiation burn, and therefore, said the court...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan married into a family that stoutly upheld the tradition. Among the relatives of Lady Dorothy (daughter of the ninth Duke of Devonshire) still prominently around: Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller (known to fellow M.P.s as "Sir Reginald Bullying- Manner"), Attorney General; Lord Balniel, former Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Treasury and Ministry of Public Housing; Robert Boothby, the able and voluble Scottish M.P. who was elevated to the peerage. Then there is David Ormsby-Gore, brother-in-law of the Prime Minister's son, Maurice; he is Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...