Nonjudicial Activities of Supreme Court Justices and Other Federal Judges: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, on Nonjudicial Activities of Supreme Court Justices and Other Federal Judges and S. 1097 ... and S. 2109 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - 839 páginas |
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accept ACHESON administration Amendment American Bar Association appear appointment BASKIR believe bench bill BOSKEY branch Canons of Judicial Chairman Chief Justice Circuit committee compensation concern conduct CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consider Constitution controversy counsel course Court of Appeals criminal Dean FISHER decisions disclosure disqualify District EDMISTEN exclusionary rule executive extrajudicial activities Federal courts Federal judges Federal judiciary Fortas function hearings impeachment interest investments involved issues judge's judgment judicial activities Judicial Conference judicial duties Judicial Ethics judicial office Justice Fortas Law School lawyer lectures legislation litigation matter ment nonjudicial activities Nuremberg Trials opinion participation political position practice President problem procedure Professor BICKEL Professor KURLAND Professor PATTERSON Professor WINTER question reason Rifkind Roberts Commission role rules Senator ERVIN separation of powers serve statement statute Subcommittee on Separation suggested supra note Supreme Court Justices tion trial U.S. Senate United Warren Commission Washington
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Página 21 - I will abstain from all offensive personality, and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which I am charged; I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed...
Página 618 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Página 16 - It is unprofessional to represent conflicting interests, except by express consent of all concerned given after a full disclosure of the facts. Within the meaning of this canon, a lawyer represents conflicting interests when, in behalf of one client, it is his duty to contend for that which duty to another client requires him to oppose.
Página 18 - It is unprofessional for a lawyer to volunteer advice to bring a lawsuit, except in rare cases where ties of blood, relationship or trust make it his duty to do so. Stirring up strife and litigation is not only unprofessional, but it is indictable at common law.
Página 18 - A lawyer should not offer evidence, which he knows the court should reject, in order to get the same before the jury by argument for its admissibility, nor should he address to the judge arguments upon any point not properly calling for determination by him. Neither should he introduce into an argument, addressed to the court, remarks or statements intended to influence the jury or bystanders.
Página 16 - When lawyers jointly associated in a cause cannot agree as to any matter vital to the interest of the client, the conflict of opinion should be frankly stated to him for his final determination. His decision should be accepted unless the nature of the difference makes it impracticable for the lawyer whose judgment has been overruled to co-operate effectively. In this event it is his duty to ask the client to relieve him.
Página 385 - The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.
Página 17 - Go in Supporting a Client's Cause. Nothing operates more certainly to create or to foster popular prejudice against lawyers as a class, and to deprive the profession of that full measure of public esteem and confidence which belongs to the proper discharge of its duties, than does the false claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defense of questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his client's cause.
Página 17 - In determining the amount of the fee, it is proper to consider : (1) the time and labor required, the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved and the skill requisite properly to conduct the cause...
Página 16 - It is the duty of the lawyer to maintain towards the Courts a respectful attitude, not for the sake of the temporary incumbent of the judicial office, but for the maintenance of its supreme importance. Judges, not being wholly free to defend themselves, are peculiarly entitled to receive the support of the Bar against unjust criticism and clamor.