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Otto Michael Kaus (January 7, 1920 – January 11, 1996) was an Austrian-born lawyer and judge from the State of California . Early life and education. Kaus was born in Vienna, Austria, as the first child of the writers Otto F. Kaus and Regina Weiner.
Jan 13, 1996 · Otto M. Kaus, a former California Supreme Court justice who decried the growing influence of politics on the judiciary, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 76.
Jan 13, 1996 · Retired California Supreme Court Justice Otto Kaus, a widely respected moderate often praised for his intelligence and graciousness, died of lung cancer Thursday. He was 76. Governor Jerry Brown...
Otto Kaus achieved a certain immortality with his often-quoted remark about the crocodile in the bathtub. On several occasions he declared that "ignoring the political consequences of judicial decisions is 'like ignoring a crocodile in your bathtub.'
gent of the law school for over forty years, the name Otto Kaus would be number one or two on almost every list. If I asked an at-torney who was Loyola Law School's most distinguished graduate, more likely than not, I would hear Otto's name mentioned. I learned of Otto's death very soon after it had occurred. I
The first time I met Otto Kaus, the topic was bizarre, and per-haps not suitable for the staid and proper pages of a law review's memorial tribute. But Otto was never one to keep things serious and proper, and I don't think he'd have wanted us to bowdlerize him. So here goes. It was at a meeting of the American Law Institute in Washing-
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OTTO KAUS REMEMBERED. Ellis . Horvitz* Otto Kaus served for sixteen years on the court of appeal and for five years on the California Supreme Court. During those years, I was one of his best customers. I briefed and argued more cases before him than I can remember. As a consumer of judicial
