Word: brennans
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Even liberal justice William A. Brennan claimed that the high court's chances for overturning the case were only "fair...
...fair means or foul, avoiding taxes has become a popular U.S. sport. Nicholas Murray of the investment firm of Shearson Loeb Rhoades estimates that queries about tax shelters have doubled in the past year. Says William G. Brennan, publisher of a tax shelter newsletter in Valley Forge, Pa.: "Because of inflation, more and more people keep landing in the 50% bracket, and that's what makes sheltering profitable." An estimated 2 million individual tax returns now fall into the 50% bracket with taxable incomes of $41,500 or above for single people and $60,000 or above for couples...
Among others calling for an open convention is Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, an early and vociferous Carter critic who was expected to urge other Democratic Governors to back a free vote at a meeting in Denver over the weekend. Governors Hugh Carey of New York, Joe Brennan of Maine, Tom Judge of Montana and Arthur Link of North Dakota have announced an anti-Carter position on the rule. So too have Senators Warren Magnuson of Washington, J. James Exon of Nebraska and Don Riegle of Michigan. The Pennsylvania delegation, which backs Kennedy narrowly, 94 to 91, is overwhelmingly in favor...
That ruling, overturned by Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, said male- only draft registration is unconstitutional because men are entitled to "equal protection" under...
...ruling set the Justice Department scrambling to get one of the nine vacationing Supreme Court Justices to issue a stay order that would suspend the Philadelphia decision. At week's end, barely 40 hours before registration was to begin, Justice William J. Brennan Jr. granted the stay from his summer home on Nantucket Island, Mass. As a result, registration will proceed as planned pending a final decision on the case by the full court, possibly by early fall...