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to mind. Lawyers in this state who have trials pending
have been hopefully excused; their cases have been
postponed, pursuant to the request of the Chief Judge
of the Court of Appeals, so therefore there shouldn't
be too many instances of that arising. However, it is
possible a man would have a case before a Federal
agency and for one reason or another it was absolutely
impossible to postpone it or the client would only
go on with him as his attorney. Again it is a case
with a little discretion perhaps the man could be
excused.
Another example, for instance, these are
all hypotheticals, but 1 give them only to give some
play of the committee's feelings. A man can't be running
back to attend to his business but perhaps on an
important day the bookkeeper had a heart attack. The
payroll had to be gotten out that day. Obviously this
would be somewhat beyond his control. I would think
in a case like that the excuse would be granted. After
all, every legislative body, and this is a legislative
body, has the power to determine whether or not a member |
