Word: brennan
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...will be unable to persuade trial judges to block the use of the evidence gathered with it. The ruling did not address the question of whether this good-faith exception would apply when police act without a warrant, but the court may look at that issue soon. Dissenter William Brennan thought the majority had done enough already. "In case after case, I have witnessed the court's gradual but determined strangulation of the rule," he wrote. "It now appears that the court's victory over the Fourth Amendment is complete." David Shrager, president of the Association of Trial...
While the court ruled that attaching strings to federal education aid is permissible, it would allow no such strings to prevent public broadcasting stations from speaking out. The court threw out a federal law that bars "editorializing" by educational television and radio stations receiving federal money. Justice Brennan, a court liberal writing for an unusual 5-to-4 majority that included Conservatives Lewis Powell and Sandra Day O'Connor, ruled that the federal ban is "directed at a form of speech-namely, the expression of editorial opinion-that lies at the heart of First Amendment protection." Dissenting Justice Stevens...
...race or sex in public business facilities. The Jaycees argued in the Supreme Court that as a private fraternal group it was beyond the scope of discrimination laws, since such laws violated the organization's First Amendment right to "freedom of association." But, writing for the court, Justice Brennan concluded that "Minnesota's compelling interest in eradicating discrimination against its female citizens justifies the impact that application of the statute to the Jay cees may have on the male members' associational freedoms...
Physical therapies are helpful not only in relieving pain, but in helping patients get on with their lives despite it. Such treatments, including exercise, whirlpool and massage, are particularly useful for back pain, which is often compounded by muscular weakness. Before Maureen Brennan, 37, of Helena, Mont., arrived at the Seattle pain clinic for treatment of her back problem, she was confined to a wheelchair and was spending $180 a week on narcotics, sleeping pills and antidepressants. An accident four years earlier had ruptured five discs in her spine. Seven operations had failed to relieve the pain, and her weight...
...police who want to question them. That being so, Rehnquist continued, the factory workers "could have had no reasonable fear that they would be detained" if they refused to answer the questions of the INS agents or chose to leave the factory while the raids were going on. William Brennan, joined by Thurgood Marshall, wrote in dissent that the decision had a "studied air of unreality," since the INS raids were "of sufficient size and force to overbear the will of any reasonable person...