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...Mitchell: "It seems to me that the court did not do its homework-or at least that seven Justices did not-because the decision distorts the clear intent of Congress. Congress did not intend to preserve a discriminatory seniority system." The two dissenting Justices, Thurgood Marshall and William J. Brennan, called the decision "devastating." They said it worked against the spirit of the court's own ruling last year that retroactive seniority must be granted to workers who can prove job bias (TIME, April...
...Nudes. Some of the farmers who owned the barns balked at first. "They wanted to be sure we wouldn't have any nudes or anything," says Cindy Brennan, 18, who worked on the Hennessey bright barn of portraits. With the farmer won over, the whole community would pitch in with the spirit of a pioneer barn raising. Local merchants contributed paintbrushes, rollers, tarps and scaffolding. Adult volunteers provided transportation and meals. Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Sears, Roebuck supplied the paint. As many as 15 to 25 teen-agers helped plot the design, scaled it up on the barn wall...
...property near Laguna Beach in his Lincoln Continental. His escorting Secret Service agents scoured the house for hidden microphones and made certain that Smith's collection of some 100 rifles and shotguns were all unloaded. Nixon was usually accompanied by the key members of his team: Colonel Jack Brennan, his former White House military aide; Chief Researcher Ken Khachigian; former Speechwriter Ray Price; former Press Assistant Diane Sawyer; and Richard Moore, the former White House aide who was a sympathetic figure in the Senate Watergate hearings. Nixon's people were told what topics would be covered, but never the questions...
...retired, Douglas waited all afternoon in his chambers for his colleagues to pay their respects, but only William Brennan and Byron White showed up. ("We had all shaken his hand when his decision was announced at lunch," explains one Justice.) The next week, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger called Douglas' three law clerks in for tea, mentioned budget problems and pointedly asked them if they had any job prospects. At the request of the other Justices, Burger also wrote Douglas suggesting that he move from his centrally located chambers to a "more commodious" office in a distant corner...
Even before Brennan's invitation, however, several state supreme courts had begun to base some significant rulings exclusively on state constitutions-thus accepting the challenge of the Burger Court while evading some of its more conservative pronouncements. State court interpretation of state constitutional law is final, immune from Supreme Court review unless a violation of federal law can be established. Some state courts still assume "they don't have to protect individual rights any more since the U.S. Supreme Court is doing it," says California Associate Justice Stanley Mosk, "but more states are taking the view that they...