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Traditionally, a Supreme Court justice each year heads the three-judge panel which evaluates students' presentations. Last year, Harry A. Blackmun '29 served as chief justice at Austin Hall, and Sandra Day O'Connor sat on the bench...
Last year, Blackmun refused to rule on the merits of the Ames case in order to avoid setting a legal precedent in moot court, Schiff said. While Brennan may avoid voicing an opinion on the legal issues involved in this year's case, the competition could influence future legal rulings, because attorneys engaged in similar disputes may draw on students' arguments...
...such jailing by Pulliam in the future, and a later order assessing the judge more than $7,000 for their legal fees. The four dissenters, led by Justice Lewis Powell, feared that judicial independence would now be eroded by "the ever present threat of burdensome litigation." But Justice Harry Blackmun, writing for the majority, could find no historical basis for blocking injunctions against judges...
...Welsh appealed the legality of his arrest all the way to the Supreme Court. He was vindicated when the Justices ruled, 6 to 3, that police without a warrant can almost never arrest a person in his home for a minor offense. Though he concurred in the decision, Justice Blackmun observed that he thought it "amazing" that the "great state" of Wisconsin had failed to make a first drunk-driving offense a crime. Ironically, if it had been a more serious offense the Justices might have upheld the right of police to intrude on the home's sanctity because...
WHATEVER THE rhetoric, whatever the legal "reasoning," the producers never had much of a chance in court and most of them knew that. In fact, many were even surprised at the closeness of the decision and the lengthy Blackmun dissent which out-paged the majority opinion...