Word: brennans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court also held that although there is no proof that capital punishment is effective as a deterrent, it is "an expression of society's moral outrage at particularly offensive conduct," and therefore "an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme crimes." Only dissenting Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan reaffirmed the traditional liberal view that all executions are, as Marshall put it, a "total denial of human dignity and worth...
...Peter J. Brennan, LL.D., former Secretary of Labor...
...supposed to be a tightly contested affair between two top-twenty teams, and for a while that's how it worked out. Two minutes into the game, attackman Jack Brennan gave the Big Green an early 1-0 lead...
...enmeshed in long-hair disputes. But last week the court finally faced the matter and trimmed some individual rights-at least for policemen. Suffolk County police on Long Island had objected to regulations that banned beards, flared sideburns and hair that went over the collar. Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan agreed with the officers that the 14th Amendment's "liberty" guarantee protected them since "an individual's personal appearance may reflect, sustain and nourish his personality." But William Rehnquist, writing for a six-Justice majority, said drily that where the state's standard is not "so irrational...
...race, religion or sex. Specifically, the ruling came in response to a petition on behalf of black applicants for long-haul truck-driver jobs with Bowman Transportation Inc. in Atlanta, which until 1970 openly followed a policy of hiring whites only. The majority opinion, written by Justice William J. Brennan, asserted that if the court merely awarded a job to an applicant who was initially discriminated against, he "will never obtain his rightful place in the hierarchy of seniority." In a dissenting opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger questioned the wisdom of courts granting seniority to some workers at the expense...