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...years, the Supreme Court was considering major league baseball's exemption from the antitrust laws. In 1922 Oliver Wendell Holmes had stated for a unanimous court that baseball was not engaged in interstate commerce and therefore was not covered by antitrust regulations. Last week Justice Harry Blackmun held that baseball is, of course, engaged in interstate commerce in the modern meaning of that term, but that the court was bound by its earlier decision. The score...
...Harry A. Blackmun, J.S.D., Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...before the court had been reached in 41 minutes. In light of the court's acceptance two years ago of juries with fewer than twelve members, Douglas also wondered whether the future might bring "3-to-2 or even 2-to-l convictions." That seemed unlikely, for Harry Blackmun, concurring with the majority, said he would have "great difficulty" approving a 7-5 verdict...
...dissenting Justices, Blackmun, Brennan and Douglas, were even more sympathetic to the conservationists; so Sierra Club lawyers were only briefly dismayed by their technical defeat. The problem now is time, and the attorneys have already begun planning strategy to reactivate the case before any Disney workmen start digging...
...should the legislatures pass sweeping or innovative measures, will the Supreme Court go to the activist conservative extreme, striking down the new laws as unconstitutional?as it did, for example, with much New Deal legislation in the 1930s? Last year Burger and Blackmun voted to invalidate Congress's extension of voting rights to 18-year-olds before the constitutional amendment had passed. Even so, many students of the court detect an air of passivity in the new alignment and this suggests a seeming paradox: the court may not actively resist legislative initiatives...