Joseph and his law clerk, Naomi Almeleh, drafted an order that would require select defendants in low-level, drug-related cases to undergo an evaluation to determine if treatment was appropriate.
This brings us to "the baleful influence of clerk drafting," to quot Edward Lazarus in his recent book, Closed Chambers.
After working for a few months as a clerk at CBS, a big broadcaster, he was drafted to serve in Vietnam by dint of that Green Card.
(He preferred "enquiry" to "inquiry," for example, and when a clerk gave him a fluidly written draft, he would joke, "time for me to put some lead in it").
WASHINGTON — In the spring of 1988, Justice Thurgood Marshall assigned a clerk, Elena Kagan, to write a first draft of his opinion in a case considering whether a school district could charge a poor family for busing a child to the nearest school, which was 16 miles away.
Now, Henryk has retreated to his own subterranean hiding place, trying to dodge the Vietnam draft by working as a clerk in a basement office, filing public assistance claims.
A first draft is almost invariably written by a clerk.
Drafted into the Army, Mr. McCourt served as a dog trainer and later a clerk in West Germany.
Mr. Levine was drafted into the Army in 1942 and, after doing camouflage painting, spent the war as a clerk on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.
The question of whether law clerks influence the judges they serve is a subject of longstanding debate, but it is no secret that law clerks routinely draft judicial opinions.
