Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking for the court, Justice William Brennan held that the 1962 decision was in error and "subsequent events have undermined its continuing validity." Moreover, Congress's enactment of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act put a new burden on the courts to cool labor disputes by upholding arbitration and similar techniques...
...note of hardhat solidarity with the nation's rulers was sounded often. WE SUPPORT NIXON AND AGNEW, One sign read; GOD BLESS THE ESTABLISHMENT. The strange bedfellowship was not lost on Peter Brennan. head of Greater New York's Building and Construction Trades Council. "We're supporting the President and the country," said Brennan, "not because he's for labor, because he isn't, but because he's our President, and we're hoping that he's right." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany drew a similar distinction: he backed Nixon on Cambodia...
...Fanny Hill case (1966), Justice William Brennan, writing for a three-man plurality of the Supreme Court, held that a work is obscene only it meets three criteria simultaneously 1) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest; 2) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards; and 3) the material is "utterly" without redeeming social value. To what extent do worthy parts redeem the whole? In Curious the explicit sexual adventures of the films heroine, Lena, are only part of her activities; much of the movie is devoted...
...which the Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week involves a ban on the mm in Massachusetts; the Maryland ban is waiting in the wings. Although these cases could divide the court, they could also enable it to provide more guidance than the standards set in Fanny Hill Justice Brennan is still on the bench, but Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Abe Fortas, who joined him in that opinion, are gone. Douglas, who concurred is now out of the argument, at least for the Massachusetts case. Brennan's only allies are likely to be Justice Potter Stewart...