Word: picard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fielder's Choice. In Pacific Beach, Calif., Stan Picard lost a wheel off his trailer, watched it roll into the hands of a stranger who quickly loaded it into his car and drove away...
...Detroit last week, Federal Judge Frank A. Picard did his best to make the law look less like "a ass." He threw clear out of court the famed Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. case for portal-to-portal pay. If the Supreme Court-to which the case is quickly headed-should sustain him, there would be lifted from industry the threat of $5 billion in back-pay claims filed by scores of unions. If it should reverse him, the law would look more like "a ass" than ever...
...thankless task which the Supreme Court had wished on Judge Picard. He had first heard the Mt. Clemens case in 1943. Then it was a simple suit, brought by the pottery company's employees, to collect overtime pay for time worked before the whistle blew. Judge Picard had ruled in favor of the employees, but was reversed on a technicality. Then the case reached the Supreme...
...eager beagle who is all heart-and-snuffles whenever the legal hunt picks up the scent of something human, sniffed out a resemblance to portal-pay cases previously decided in favor of miners. As spokesman for a 5-2 majority he sent the case back to the lower court. Picard was ordered to decide whether workers' time between punching the time clock and starting work was a trifle (which could be ignored) or substantial (which must be paid for). And, in Justice Murphy's phrase, he was to do so "in light of the realities of the industrial...
...could tell just what Justice Murphy meant. Judge Picard, the man on the spot, had to try. First of all, he had to determine how long it took Mt. Clemens workers to walk from the time clocks to their benches. To find out, he called some witnesses to his courtroom. When a mousy little woman claimed that it took her five minutes to walk 750 feet, outraged company attorneys suggested that the judge clock her on a course in the court corridors. Judge Picard snapped: "I am not going to make an exhibition of this courtroom. Now cut out this...