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Justice is sometimes served in mysterious ways. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun told a commencement day audience at Hamline University last week that when he took his place on that exalted bench, he was amazed to find that each Justice had a box of cough drops in a drawer in front of him. "I don't know why," said Blackmun, "because we don't say much." In Blackmun's box was a single cough drop. "It tasted like it had been there since 1902. Then I didn't know what to do with the empty...
...that the decision will encourage divorces at taxpayers' expense and lead to a future court-imposed right to counsel for the poor in divorce and other civil proceedings. "Is this strict construction?" he asked. The court's most avowed "strict constructionists," Chief Justice Burger and Justice Harry Blackmun, sat in stony silence...
...unreal." Moreover, Stewart said that the testimony "was of peripheral significance at most," since 20 witnesses testified and were available for cross-examination-including another co-conspirator who described in detail the crime and Evans' part in it. Three justices agreed with Stewart; two of them, Justice Harry Blackmun and Chief Justice Warren Burger, went on to argue that even if the judge made an error by admitting the evidence, it was a harmless error...
...majority consisted of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Associate Justices Hugo L. Black, William J. Brennan Jr., Byron R. White, Thur-good Marshall and Harry A. Blackmun. Justices Potter Stewart and John M. Harlan dissented on different grounds...
...Implicit in the court's previous decisions has been the idea that since assignments based on race created segregation, they can now be used to dismantle it. But the Administration's modest view of how much desegregation is necessary seemed to win some sympathy from Justice Harry Blackmun as well as Burger. Justice Hugo Black, long a staunch advocate of rapid desegregation, hinted that he was now skeptical of trying to "rearrange the whole country" to change "the whole practice and tradition of the neighborhood school...