Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in the Fanny Hill case, Associate Justice William J. Brennan said, "evidence that the book was commercially exploited for the sake of prurient appeal might justify the conclusion that the book was without redeeming social importance...
...JOHN M. BRENNAN...
...unanimous decision, the court prohibited the Government from compelling individual party members to register with the Government as stipulated by the Subversive Activities Control (McCarran) Act of 1950. "In an area permeated with criminal statutes," maintained Justice William J. Brennan Jr.'s opinion, by the 1950 law the party member would be forced to incriminate himself, in violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment...
...defeat in 1963, Maher was transferred from the detective division to the traffic division. He subsequently charged that the change was a punishment for his political activity. The issue was brought before the City Council at a public hearing, but no action was taken to reverse Police Chief Daniel Brennan's order...
When Maher indicated this summer that he would run again, he asked Brennan for a six-month leave of absence. Brennan refused, and Maher resigned. It is believed that Maher received a heavy vote from police officers and their friends and relatives...