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Judicial Conference (as well as state equivalents) to encroach into state legislative duties and limit judicial independence. This was precisely the argument made by Justice Hugo Black and Justice William O. Douglas in their cutting dissent. On the other hand, the Court's decision has been used as a model for judicial discipline, not only in the United States, but also in Canada in the case of Justice Leo Landreville on the Ontario Supreme Court.
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Chandler had been accused of a crime, and had also bullied the United States Attorney into prosecuting a local attorney that Chandler believed had committed perjury. Moreover, Chandler published a law review article damning the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the very appellate court which accepted appeals from his court. The
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He was charged by a local district attorney for the unlawful appropriation of land, even though there was little evidence to support the charge and it appeared that the district attorney acted more out of a vendetta than fidelity to the state laws. Nonetheless, by 1965 Oklahoma's public could read
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Judicial Council had relieved him from his duties for one month, saying that Chandler was "...unable or unwilling to discharge efficiently the duties of his office." He appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, and was
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