Word: brennan
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can stay the P.H. Brennan Hand Delivery Service from its appointed rounds, but the U.S. Postal Service has finally succeeded in doing so. For more than two years, Patricia and Paul Brennan delivered first-class mail along with other papers and parcels in downtown Rochester, N.Y. For 10? a letter, they guaranteed same-day delivery and served close to 400 satisfied clients...
Burger and his closest ally, Rehnquist, now stand increasingly isolated on the right, while Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan hang onto the Warren tradition on the left. "Fragmented moderation," Michigan Law Professor Vincent Blasi calls it. "Even when they get clear majorities," says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther, "many different opinions come down. The Justices are tending to be loners, more isolated, less inclined to give and take...
...obscene. The "uniquely pervasive presence" of broadcasting justifies such regulation, said Stevens, who tried to narrow the ruling to the facts of the case-an explicit comedy routine that could be heard by a child in the afternoon over New York's radio station WBAI-FM. Angrily dissenting, Brennan said that Stevens' rationale "could justify" banning Chaucer from the radio, as well as portions of the Watergate tapes and the Bible...
...access. Stewart argued that the press could bring along its tools of the trade, including cameras, on public tours. "In theory, the press may not have any more access than the public in Stewart's view," said Stanford's Gunther. "But practically, it does." Three Justices (Stevens, Brennan and Powell) argued that both press and public should have greater access. The decision reflects the sensitivity of some Justices to the practical needs of the press. While carefully avoiding any doctrine of special privilege, Justices like Powell, Brennan and Marshall are trying to find a way to protect practical...
...Agreement with this argument," wrote Associate Justice William Brennan in the majority opinion, "would invalidate not just New York's laws, but all comparable legislation elsewhere in the nation. We find no merit...