Word: brennans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court Justices were broadly agreed that the Constitution does not prohibit private individuals from forming "allwhite, all-black, all-brown and all-yellow clubs." The issue was whether Pennsylvania, by issuing a liquor license to the lodge, was illegally supporting discrimination through state action. Justices Brennan, Douglas and Marshall said it was, since the state issues only a limited number of liquor licenses which it uses to regulate record keeping, physical conditions and even behavior on the premises. Justice Rehnquist, writing for the 6 to 3 majority, disagreed. He declared that the court should not "utterly emasculate the distinction...
...reached through the window and found the gun where the tipster said it would be. (The car was subsequently searched and narcotics found in it.) The officer's action under these circumstances, said Rehnquist, "was designed to ensure his safety, and we conclude that it was reasonable." Dissenting, Brennan, Douglas and Marshall worried about the ease with which a policeman could search anyone and then say that an informant had "told" him what to look for. Said Marshall: "Today's decision invokes the specter of a society in which innocent citizens may be stopped, searched and arrested...
...dissenting Justices, Blackmun, Brennan and Douglas, were even more sympathetic to the conservationists; so Sierra Club lawyers were only briefly dismayed by their technical defeat. The problem now is time, and the attorneys have already begun planning strategy to reactivate the case before any Disney workmen start digging...
Partly because he has triumphed over the frustrations suffered by others, fellow muckrakers almost to a man hail Anderson as a hero. Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Ray Brennan rasps: "I think he is one of the absolutely greatest there ever was." I.F. Stone finds him "filled with a good, wholesome attitude that every public official is an s.o.b. unless proved otherwise...
...Terry (Brennan) was surprisingly fast...he kept ducking under my jab and coming in. He likes to bull you on the ropes, work on the body. But he got me mostly with hooks, hooks don't hurt that much, they mostly get you on that rubber head thing you wear...