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...court to try to read Congress's mind in retrospect. Writing for the majority, Justice William Brennan agreed that "Title VII's prohibition of discriminatory employment practices was intended to be broadly inclusive." Surely, he argued, Congress did not intend to block suits such as this one, where the county's own job survey had concluded that the women's jobs should provide wages equal to 95% of the men's. Countered dissenting Justice William Rehnquist: "The court conveniently and persistently ignores relevant legislative history and instead relies wholly on what it believes Congress should...
Homeowners are among the biggest gainers. Many people buy property today with the anticipation that inflation will continue. A homeowner holding a 12% mortgage would have a crippling house payment if inflation, and the accompanying double-digit salary increases, suddenly stopped. Marty Brennan, 39, a San Francisco real es tate speculator, makes an annual income of more than $100,000 from property investments. Says she: "Without inflation, I would have to be about 20 times smart er at my business and would have to work a lot harder to earn money instead of just making...
Leading the dissenters, Justice William Brennan found an "analytic similarity" between the reaching of a verdict and the determination of a sentence. "Imposition of a ten-year sentence where a 25-year sentence is permissible under the statute," he argued, "constitutes a finding that the facts justify only a ten-year sentence." Brennan warned that the logical extension of the court's reasoning might allow Congress to grant prosecutors the power to appeal acquittals...
Weinberg's client, Robert Goldberg, won his suit against the SSS in Philadelphia federal district court in July, but Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan stayed the decision, allowing registration of 19- and 20-year-old men to begin as planned...
Perhaps the best thing about this film is the cast list, which includes such good people as Eileen Brennan, Barbara Barrie, Robert Webber, Albert Brooks and Harry Dean Stanton. Among the bad things is its failure to give any of them anything worthwhile to do. Brennan, one of the screen's master muggers, puts up a good fight against the odds. Everyone else very sensibly stays low in the foxholes...