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...Carter called for a resumption of draft registration. He urged that women, too, be required to sign up, but Congress demurred. Weeks later, a federal district court in Philadelphia concluded that the registration law violated the equal-protection guarantees of the Fifth Amendment. In July, Supreme Court Justice William Brennan stayed that decision until the high court could review it, and registration went forward as planned. Since then, some 5.8 million men, aged 18 to 21 (more than 90% of those eligible), have gone to their post offices to fill out green-and-white registration forms...
...news was doubly a surprise because other Justices had been considered for more likely to depart. Five occupants of the bench are over 70 and two, William Brennan, 75, and Thurgood Marshall, 72, are reportedly in less than robust health. President Reagan now has an unexpectedly early opportunity to begin his oft-promised ideological remolding of the court. His main criterion for candidates is clearly known, said White House Spokesman Larry Speaks, " He will not seek only candidates who necessarily agree with him on every position, but rather those who share one key view, the role of the courts...
...effect in 25 other states, where prisons are under court orders to improve conditions, and in an additional ten states, where similar cases are pending. The court stressed that state legislators and administrators were better suited than judges to decide how to run their penitentiaries. But, said Justices William Brennan, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens in a concurring opinion, "today's decision should in no way be construed as a retreat from careful judicial scrutiny of prison conditions...
...standards assuring that "to the extent feasible," no worker would suffer material impairment of health from exposure to toxic substances, including cotton dust. By and large, OSHA read the word feasible to mean technologically possible, but the industry argued for a primarily economic definition. Wrote Justice William Brennan for the majority: "Congress itself defined the basic relationship between costs and benefits, by placing the 'benefit' of worker health above all other considerations save those making attainment of this 'benefit' unachievable." Brennan pointed out that Congress's goal in enacting the statute...
...ruling, while a serious setback for the Reagan Administration's deregulation effort, is far from a death blow. James C. Miller III, who heads a White House deregulation task force, emphasized that the court's decision dealt only with the OSHA statute covering toxic substances. Indeed, Justice Brennan cited several regulatory laws, including ones on the environment, that specifically allow the Government to weigh costs against benefits. Now if the Administration wants to do the same thing with toxic substances in the workplace, it may have no choice but to ask Congress to amend the statute accordingly...