Word: brennans
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...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...
...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...