Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retired Air Force Captain Ray Brennan, 61, a tall, graying man who loved to collect seashells, had been having heart trouble for some years. But he was the bookkeeper of American Legion Post #42 in Towanda, Pa., and, as his sister Maize Travis said, "All he lived for was these conventions." So Brennan set off for Philadelphia last month to attend a state Legion convention-an affair traditionally devoted to parading and merrymaking. He came home "tired," his sister recalled, and three days later he had chest pains, a fever and difficulty in breathing. "He didn't want...
...least one coal company looked to the courts to reopen its mines. "Industrial anarchy," charged Joseph Brennan, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. "Everyone is the victim, but shameful wildcats go on." In fact, only the coal companies and such coal-carrying railroads as the Chessie System and Norfolk and Western have so far been hurt. The fuel's major users-electric utilities, coke plants and steel mills-maintain 23-to 90-day stockpiles, enough to ride out a short strike...
Though Burger was writing for the court, a majority of the Justices seemed ready to go further than he had. Brennan, joined by Stewart and Marshall, wrote flatly that "there can be no prohibition on the publication by the press of any information pertaining to pending judicial proceedings or the operation of the criminal justice system." Byron White and John Paul Stevens in separate opinions each indicated that they were also close to that view. All the Justices pointed out that there were other ways of protecting a defendant's Sixth Amendment rights-including moving or delaying the trial...
...rare public speech this spring before the New Jersey State Bar Association, Justice Brennan, obviously unhappy in his new position in a minority, condemned his colleagues for acting "increasingly to bar the federal courthouse door" to "the litigants most in need of judicial protection of their rights -the poor, the underprivileged, the deprived minorities...
Looking Elsewhere. As Brennan went on to point out, an inevitable and perhaps desirable adjustment has begun. Lawyers are looking away from the Supreme Court as the sole source of legal wisdom and progress; instead, they are pressing novel claims on receptive state supreme courts. The top courts in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey and South Dakota -among others-have all shown a willingness to go further on certain issues than has the nation's top court. For instance, the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1973 declared the unequal funding of public schools through local property taxes...