Remembering Powell, a gentleman justice; his centrist legacy includes 'Bakke,' 'Bowers' and law clerks who adored him
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Colleagues and friends invariably use kindness, geniality and courtesy to describe former Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell, who died on Aug 25, 1998, shortly before his 91st birthday at his Virginia home. The justice earned clerks' enduring devotion in spite of driving them hard. Powell's even temperament and concern for others mirrored a judicial philosophy that tended to find merit in each side's argument, a philosophy epitomized in his most noted opinion, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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High Court defers to judges on scientific evidence
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The Supreme Court ruled in General Electric Co. Joiner that courts should employ the abuse-of-discretion standard in deciding on the admission of scientific evidence. The court rejected a contention that Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals had changed a way of looking at evidence which had existed for 150 years or that a stricter standard when the decision would determine the outcome of the case should be used.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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