Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satire, and with it the heel-kicking, finger-feathering gestures of Little Mary (Eileen Brennan), tires out before Yellow Feather, the Indian heavy, finally has the heroine strapped to a conifer and the No. i Ranger comes singing to the rescue. Nonetheless, there are plenty of fine moments along the way: an ex-diva of Germanic origin sings of her native burg (In Izzenschnooken on the Lovely Essen-zook Zee). A soubrette who wishes she were an unvirtued spy sings her unashamed worship of Mata Hari...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Abel's conviction, but in a sharply split (5-4) decision. The four dissenting justices (William Brennan, Hugo Black, William Douglas, Chief Justice Earl Warren) agreed with Abel's court-appointed lawyer that the FBI had no right to use for criminal prosecution the evidence that was seized in the course of Immigration's "administrative" arrest (one not ordered by a court warrant). In his dissent. Justice Brennan charged violation of the spy's Fourth Amendment protections from "unreasonable searches and seizures." But the court majority reviewed each step...
With the case before them on direct appeal by Thompson's attorney, the Justices explored shuffling at length. ("What is a shuffle dance?" asked Justice William Brennan. Replied Louisville's uncomfortable assistant city attorney: "I presume it is some sort of dancing that uses a system of shuffling.") They concluded that no evidence of loitering or disorderly conduct existed. Wrote Justice Hugo L. Black for the court: "Although the fines are small, the due-process questions presented are substantial...
...Supreme Court's contrary opinion. Justice William J. Brennan Jr. sternly lectured Judge Davis. "The delicate power of pronouncing an Act of Congress unconstitutional," said he, "is not to be exercised with reference to hypothetical cases." The act was clearly constitutional in its application to Terrell County, ruled Brennan, and Judge Davis must now try the Justice Department's complaint on its merits. U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers, who had himself argued the crucial Georgia case before the Supreme Court, jubilantly said the court's decision proved that the Civil Rights Act "is a firm foundation...