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Haiken died on 1/4/02. The following is from the San Francisco Chronicle:
Marvin "Matt" Haiken, attorney, teacher and environmental activist, died Jan. 4 at home in Albany after a long fight with esophageal cancer. He was 69.
Mr. Haiken was born in 1932 and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Columbia University in New York City.From 1956 to 1959, Mr. Haiken served as a lieutenant in the Army's legal branch. In the 1960s, he worked as an attorney in the civil tax division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mr. Haiken then focused his career on legal education. He was the assistant director at the Center for Judicial Education and Research, a division of the state's Administrative Office of the Courts.
He also served as attorney editor at Continuing Education of the Bar, a nonprofit continuing legal education provider in Berkeley. He retired in 1992.
As an environmentalist, Mr. Haiken was involved in battles to preserve open space in Marin and Sonoma counties, including the fight to prevent development in the Marin Headlands.
In his spare time, Mr. Haiken performed in community theater, made wine and stayed at his family's second home in Healdsburg.
He is survived by his wife, Sallie Weissinger, of Albany; four daughters, Melanie Haiken of San Rafael, Elizabeth Haiken of El Cerrito, Sally Haiken of Arcata and Claire Haiken of San Francisco; a sister, Doris Barnett of Sunrise, Fla.; a stepdaughter, Heather Arnett of Seattle; and two grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Sonoma Land Trust, 1122 Sonoma Ave., Santa Rosa CA 95405; Friends of the Russian River, P.O. Box 1335, Healdsburg CA 95448; or Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 810 Seventh Ave., New York NY 10019.
Hall, perhaps the only judge with commissions on her chanbers' wall appointing her to the benches of the Tax Court, Federal District Court (Los Angeles) and the Court of appeals (9th Circuit,) chairs an international commission of jurists and seems to fit in at least one trip to distant lands with my wife, Marian [Marian Ferguson], each year. (Submitted by Carr Ferguson.)
Harris, Criminal Section alumnus and current Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Antonio, Texas, was recently elected Treasurer/Secretary of the U.S. Modern Pentathlon Association, the Olympic governing body for the sport of Modern Pentathlon.
According to the April 16, 2002 edition of the Consumer Bankruptcy News, Grover and 37 other lawyers was inducted into the American College of Bankruptcy at a special ceremony held at the U.S. Supreme Court March 15.
David, who retired as a Senior Trial Attorney in 1992, died Saturday, August 19, 2000, of cancer. During his career with the division, David practiced in the Eastern and Court of Federal Claims civil trial sections, as well as with the Criminal Section. Prior to coming to the Tax Division, he had served in the Army's Judge Advocate General Corps. A memorial service is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 24, at the Demaine Funeral Home, 5308 Backlick Road, Springfield, VA (corner of Backlick and Edsel Roads). Anyone who would like to speak in remembrance at the service is welcome to do so. Following the service, a potluck supper will be held at the family home, 6597 Braddock Road, Alexandria.
David's wife, Karin, has suggested that any donations in David's memory be made to the Arlington County Tennis Association Youth Programs, in which he was an active participant. The mailing address is: ACTA, P.O. Box 10532, Arlington, VA 22210 (web site: www.actatennis.org ).The Legal Times for 6/14/99 reports in the Federal Court Watch Section that some of the plaintiffs in the DOJ overtime pay suit are coming out of the closet -- i.e., publicly acknowledging their participation. Among the plaintiffs are "Thomas and Sara Holderness, former trial attorneys in Justice's Tax Division." The gist of the case, as reported, is that the lawyers are seeking overtime pay because they worked more than 40 hours per week.
See above for Sara Holdermess.
On 2/23/03, President Bush nominated Mark Van Dyke Holmes, currently DAAG in the Tax Division, to a full term (15-years) as a judge on the United States Tax Court.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/24/AR2008122402398.html
WASHINGTON POST
12/25/2008
Obituaries
Harlow Huckabee, 90; Justice Dept. LawyerHarlow M. Huckabee was a lawyer for the Justice Department's Tax Division and the IRS and became an expert on the insanity defense. (Family Photo - Family Photo)
By Joe Holley
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 25, 2008; Page B06Harlow M. Huckabee, 90, a retired Justice Department lawyer who was involved in several high-profile cases and who became an expert on the insanity defense, died Dec. 15 of pneumonia at his home in Alexandria.
Mr. Huckabee worked with the Federal Housing Administration before joining the Justice Department in 1956 as a trial lawyer in the criminal section of the Tax Division. He was a lawyer with the Internal Revenue Service from 1963 to 1967 and then returned to the Justice Department, where he remained until his retirement in 1980.Along with Justice Department lawyer Lawrence Bailey, he prosecuted Elmer F. "Bones" Remmer, once one of the San Francisco Bay area's flashiest and most successful gambling czars, on charges of tax evasion. Remmer, who operated a lodge at Lake Tahoe, was in the public eye for tangling with Hollywood's "it" girl, Clara Bow, who lost $13,900 at his blackjack tables and later stopped payment on her check.
The Justice Department won its case against Remmer in 1951, but the verdict was overturned on appeal. A 1958 conviction stuck.
In 1960, Mr. Huckabee -- along with then-U.S. Attorney Elliot L. Richardson -- participated in the mental competency hearing of Boston textile magnate Bernard Goldfine, who in the late 1950s admitted to having given Sherman Adams, chief of staff in the Eisenhower White House, a vicuņa coat, an Oriental rug and other gifts, allegedly in exchange for help with government regulatory agencies.
Goldfine, who was defended by prominent Washington attorney Edward Bennett Williams, was convicted of tax evasion and served eight months in prison.
In the early 1970s, Mr. Huckabee prosecuted U.S. Rep. Cornelius E. Gallagher, a New Jersey Democrat who left Congress in 1973 after pleading guilty to tax evasion.
Harlan Maxwell Huckabee was born Jan. 22, 1918, in Wichita Falls, Tex. At age 16, in the midst of the Depression, he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and was set to work clearing timber in Oregon's Rogue River National Forest. Afterward, he worked full time for a Boston life insurance company while finishing high school at night.
He enlisted in the Army in 1940 and served in the 2nd Armored Division. He participated in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, the Rhineland, the Ardennes and central Europe and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
He talked his way into Harvard after the war, convincing a dean that a high school dropout who got his diploma in night school could compete, because of his war experience, with the sons of the elite. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard in three years.Reentering the Army, he simultaneously attended Georgetown University law school, receiving his law degree in 1951. Assigned to the Army's Judge Advocate General Corps, he was stationed in Korea and Japan from 1952 to 1955.
He was lead defense counsel for Army Master Sgt. Maurice L. Schick, who was charged with murder in the 1953 strangulation of the 9-year-old daughter of an Army colonel serving in Zama, Japan. Mr. Huckabee relied on an insanity defense in the trial.
Schick was convicted and sentenced to death. Mr. Huckabee and his fellow defense attorneys appealed the conviction on grounds that their client was denied transportation and funds to be evaluated by psychiatrists in the United States. Although the appeals failed, Mr. Huckabee pressed President Dwight D. Eisenhower to commute the death sentence to life in prison. Eisenhower did so in 1960, with a proviso that Schick never be paroled.
The case led to Mr. Huckabee's career-long interest in the relationship between law and psychiatry. In retirement, he wrote two books and several law review articles on the topic and maintained a Web site, http://www.diminishedcapacity.com.Mr. Huckabee's wife, Gloria C. Huckabee, died in 1997.
Survivors include three children, Bonney H. Sheahan and David C. Huckabee, both of Arlington County, and Stephen M. Huckabee of Culpeper; a brother; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.