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...decision strongly asserted women's right to make choices about how to run their own lives. As Justice Blackmun wrote for the majority, "It is no more appropriate for the courts than it is for individual employers to decide whether a woman's reproductive role is more important to herself and her family than her economic role...
Near the end of this opinion Blackmun writes, "Decisions about the welfare of future children must be left to the parents who conceive, bear, support and raise them rather than to the employers who hire these parents...
...that business groups found crushing, the Supreme Court last week upheld Haslip's judgment. The court found by a 7-to-1 vote that the large punitive-damage award against the insurance company did not violate the 14th Amendment's due-process clause. Writing for the majority, Justice Harry Blackmun conceded that "unlimited jury discretion . . . in the fixing of punitive damages may invite extreme results that jar one's constitutional sensibilities." But, Blackmun concluded, "we need not, and indeed we cannot, draw a mathematical bright line between the constitutionally acceptable and the constitutionally unacceptable that would fit every case...
...expected to benefit much from similar pleas. The decision does not change the obligation of all nonpayers to pay any back taxes due, plus interest and applicable civil penalties. Last week's ruling affects only criminal convictions, which must be based on "willful" violations. Still, dissenting Justice Harry Blackmun blasted the court for encouraging "taxpayers to cling to frivolous views...
...their young assistants. O'Connor, for example, takes an active interest in the personal lives of her clerks, sometimes makes lunch for them, even invites them home for Thanksgiving. Brennan always liked to mix business and pleasure over daily , freewheeling breakfast chats with his clerks. So does Justice Harry Blackmun. "He's a real baseball fan," remembers New York University law professor Vicki Been, "so there's a lot of talk about the previous day's scores." And Justice White, once a basketball regular in the courthouse gym, holds reunions with his former clerks at which he still offers them...