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...active schedule of public appearances and shows no sign that he is thinking about quitting. Court watchers have been noting for years that Thurgood Marshall, 76, is in poor physical shape, but he has remarked privately, "I was appointed for life and intend to serve out my term." William Brennan, who will be 79 in April, is the oldest of the Justices, but remains spry mentally and physically. Remarried in 1983, the Eisenhower appointee seems less limited by his years than his younger colleague William Rehnquist, 60, whose back problems send him home from the court many days...
Liberal Justice William Brennan was not reassured. He accused the majority of delivering a "potentially crippling blow to Miranda and . . . the rights of persons accused of crime." Georgetown Law Professor William Greenhalgh sympathized with the dissenters, noting that despite O'Connor's bright-line endorsement, "exceptions like this tend to dim that line for police in the field." The practical impact may not be large, said other observers, but the new ruling is another sign that the conservative members of the court intend to keep on whittling...
...other questions. Some observers see the San Antonio reversal as the latest assertion of independence by a Justice once considered to be a solid member of the conservative bloc. Last week's majority was made up of Centrists Blackmun, John Paul Stevens and Byron White plus Liberals William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. "You can almost see them getting together and saying, 'Let's win one against the Gipper,' " says one leading court expert...
...outright all libel suits by public officials against critics of their performance. The full court went almost as far: it held that journalists should not be liable for the results of honest error about public matters, regardless of how false or injurious the report. Said Justice William Brennan in the majority opinion: "Raising as it does the possibility that a good-faith critic of government will be penalized for his criticism, the proposition relied on by the Alabama courts (that an attack on government performance is a personal attack on government officials) strikes at the very center of the constitutionally...
...Managing Editor Robert Brennan said that in the future HSA will hire more assistant editors so that none of them are overworked...