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The courts & the press DEFAME GAME LIBEL: THE MIDAS TOUCH THE CURRENT, raging controversy about defamation suits by public officials, ex-public officials, and public figures against the media has...

The Burger Court (June 1984)

at home. Another story, "Amanuensis," chronicles a less-perverse, but equally sinister turn of events. It is as if these tales come together to applaud the muses in Godwin's life, but also to...

The proper balance: (October 1983)

Oilman v. Evans THE PROPER BALANCE IN CASE OF LIBEL ON AUGUST 5, 1983, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in a widely noted decision, held that a...

Libel revival (November 1982)

The courts & the press LIBEL REVIVAL THE DANGER OF 'MEDIA HUNTING' THE RECENT JURY LIBEL AWARD of $2.08 million to Mobil Oil Company's president against the Washington Post exemplifies the (newly...

Neoconservatism vs conservatism? (July 1981)

above interests are not shared by Reaganite conservatives and the third, defense of Israel, is viewed by them as a matter of pragmatic, rather than principled, necessity. Since, to the Reaganites,...

Legal disservice (May 1981)

The budget LEGAL DISSERVICE ANOTHER HOLE IN THE 'SAFETY NET'. THE Reagan budget axe, designed to chop off some social service limbs elsewhere, proposes to completely decapitate the Legal Services...

The Court Years/Independent Journey (March 1981)

Constitutional activist THE COURT YEARS William O. Douglas Random House, $16.95, 434 pp. INDEPENDENT JOURNEY THE LIFE OF WILLIAM 0. DOUGLAS James F. Simon Harper & Row, $16.95, 503...

The hidden numbers (August 1980)

l IHL THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE "80 ELECTION The hidden numbers ISIDORE SILVER T HE ELECTION of 1980 is a landmark election--because of the numbers. The relevant numbers are 74, 72...

The Brethren (February 1980)

Books: COURTMANSHlP & HOW TO PLAY IT QUICK—which Supreme Court Justice said, upon learning of the death of his "Chief," "This is the first indication I have ever had that there is a God?"...

The Philadelphia story (November 1979)

Treasury departments. Once in office, these bureaucrats shots that Dewey fired still reverberate. They are heard in the obstruct even a well-intentioned president from decisive...

Bakke to Weber to-? (August 1979)

bility of bureaucracies, whether government or corporate-or were these standards themselves up for grabs in the search for Commonweal is currently operating on its summer...

Death sentence for affirmative action: (March 1979)

AFTER BAKKE COMES...

Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice (February 1979)

States will not prosecute American war criminals in the same way that it punished General Yamashita after the war in Japan. More than any other American scholar, Lewy has had access to the...

BOOKS (August 1977)

at the train station when the inhabitants of the Roman ghetto are being taken away, as well as her and Useppe's mysterious illness: the ominous seizures and finally the davastating grand...

BOOKS (July 1976)

liberation, Revolution and Freedom: Theological Perspectives EDITED BY THOMAS M. McFADDEN Seabury, $9.95 God of the Oppressed JAMES H. CONE Seabury, $955 DOROTHY DOHEN These are two of the...

BOOKS (January 1976)

The Courage tit Chooge: Ah Amelleun film'* Story MARY GRIFFIN Little, Brown, $7.95 BARBARA MITKOSKI A certain time lag inevitably intervenes between peak experiences and their translation into...

WARREN BURGER: THE IDEOLOGUE AS REFORMER (June 1974)

Church from the one represented by Siri and his followers. A new type of adult Christian has emerged and made his options for a new kind of Christian presence in the world. What the Council never...

NOT SO GRAND JURY? (December 1973)

NOT SO GRAND JURY? ISIDORE SILVER The function of the grand jury has become bifurcated If politics makes strange bedfellows, then political turbulence institutionalizes wholesale illicitness,...

PSYCHOHISTORY OF A TRIAL (November 1973)

BOOKS. PSYCHOHISTORY OF A TRIAL The Briar Patch MURRAY KEMPTON Button, $7.95 "Future Shock" is a pervasive cultural affliction extending to the objects of our national paranoia as well as...

WATERGATE OPTIONS (July 1973)

WATERGATE OPTIONS ISIDORE SILVER Dealing with the massive corruption of the political process As the evidence of the Nixon Administration's unprecedented, wholesale assault on the United...

The FBI: A Relevant Motion (May 1973)

did not deny that Nixon was aware of the cover-up. This President has swollen his personal power beyond what either the founders intended or our liberties can bear. In his grand "journeys for...

The Case for Dividing 'Justice' (July 1972)

i i THE CASE FOR DIVINING 'JUSTICE' ISIDORE SILVER No President needs his own law enforcement machinery, for the temptation to pervert such machinery to partisan political ends is often...

Death and the Judges (April 1972)

DEATH AND THE JUDGES ISIDORE SILVER Cruel and unusual punishment? On January 17, 1972, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in four cases involving the constitutionality of...

The Last Picture Show-A Concurring Opinion (January 1972)

iII I THE I, AST PICTURE SHOW: A CONCURRING OPINION ISIDORE SILVER Remarkable art, flawed only by the hoary myth of the Old West Undoubtedly--and perhaps rather quickly--a bevy of...

SECRETS AND SECURITY (August 1971)

SECRETS AND SECURITY Postscript to the Pentagon Papers RICHARD B. GRIFFIN For those of us who view national security as an im- portant, though not exclusive, concern, the...

IS POVERTY ILLEGAL? (February 1971)

IS POVERTY ILLEGAL? An opportunity for a quiet revolution ISIDORE SILVER The title is, of course, ambiguous; the ambiguity is, of course, calculated. It could refer to the fact that many Americans...

SISSON'S COMPLAINT, WYZANSKI'S PLOY (June 1969)

SISSON'S COMPLAINT, WYZANSKI'S PLOY _9 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 _9 0 _9 _9 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 Putting the Supreme Court on the spot ISIDORE SILVER Chief Judge Charles E. Wyzanski of the Federal...

STOP AND FRISK: (July 1968)

ERODING THE FOURTH AMENDMENT STOP AND FRISK Urban police regularly indulge in two different forms of "stop and frisk"-mass "rousting" of ghetto residents to harass and (presumably) deter potential...

TRUE-BLUE DICK: (April 1968)

TRUE-BLUE DICK Richard Nixon may well become the next President of the United States. It seems almost incredible that a man who has been a private citizen for almost eight years and has not been...

POVERTY AS A CRIME (October 1966)

Bar Association has proposed that a Judicare form of program be established wherein an attorney handling a case for an impoverished client would be compensated from poverty funds, thus...

CONFESSION AND THE COURT (July 1966)

CONFESSION AND THE COURT _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 New rules [or the police ISIDORE SILVER If a legal philosopher were asked to create a system of criminal procedure...

UGLINESS AND THE LAW (November 1965)

Beautifying by legislation UGLINESS WD THE LAW President Johnson has decided that the "Great Society" is to be, in large part, the "Beautiful Society." His highway beautification bill is a...

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Silverman, Deborah

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