Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is much in your experience from which we can benefit. We would like to learn from you." Several members of the audience sounded eager to teach him. "What we're talking about here is money," Accountant Will Kidd murmured to a luncheon guest. Added Lawyer Thomas Lamar Jr.: "This is a booster town. It doesn't worry so much about political stripes...
Applying that logic to Sears and the Government the way Morgan does may be novel, but courts have held that corporations do have rights of due process. One of Morgan's tactics has been used by generations of public interest lawyers: if the law is against you, argue broad questions of fairness and attack the harmful social effects of the law. Says Edward Ennis, an A.C.L.U. board member: "I find Chuck's argument extremely imaginative and original, and I'm pleased to see a civil rights lawyer making...
Other public interest lawyers are not so pleased; one calls Morgan a "moral Houdini." In addition to representing Sears, Morgan is paid a retainer by the Tobacco Institute to argue "smokers' rights." Protests Mark Green, director of Congress Watch, a Nader consumer lobby: "Morgan is using civil liberties as a smokescreen for corporate interests. It's really a bizarre evolution for a public interest lawyer...
...blacks, companies-or, for that matter, to Charles Morgan. He quit the A.C.L.U.in 1976 because of the director's objections to his public political comments, writing: "I do not admit the right of any bureaucracy to grant or deny me my rights as a citizen." Most corporate lawyers with a big equal opportunity case on their hands would advise settlement or conciliation. Morgan's move to take Sears' complaint to court, says one civil liberties lawyer, is "bold and unorthodox, but vintage Morgan...
...under its new (since April 1977) chairman, A. Daniel O'Neal, 42, the ICC is now solidly for deregulation. A soft-voiced, informal lawyer (he wears short-sleeved shirts even in January) from Bremerton, Wash., O'Neal learned the ICC's operations as a consumer-minded staff member of the Senate Commerce Committee. He was named to the then eleven-member ICC (since reduced to six) by President Nixon in 1973, but it was not until Jimmy Carter made him chairman that he drew a bead on the set of regulations that had almost stamped out price...