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...leveraging off the customer base," in Sears jargon. In the ultimate one-stop shopping, it is now possible at many Sears stores to buy a house, pick all the needed furniture and appliances and then take out insurance on the whole bundle. On a more usual level, says Edward Brennan, 50, who is in charge of the giant
Dissenting Justice Brennan articulated the newly granted immunity of judges when he said. "If their decision to issue a warrant was correct, the evidence will be admitted; if their decision was incorrect but the police relied in good faith on the warrant, the evidence will also be admitted." Such a scenario illustrates the pointlessness of a warrant process without a strict application of the exclusionary rule--it becomes defunct, a meaningless bureaucratic procedure, neither facilitating detailed police work or protecting individuals rights...
...LIKELY that the Constitution's framers would be turning in their graves at the majority's application of simple cost-benefit analysis on a question involving one of that document's most sacred amendments. Their decision "ignores the fundamental constitutional importance of what is at stake here," said Justice Brennan, echoing fellow dissenters Stevens and Marshall...
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...