Word: burger
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...names and other records when the taxmen have reason to be suspicious of large deposits or transactions. The decision, said worried Dissenters Potter Stewart and William O. Douglas, could let the IRS go off on "shot-in-the-dark" hunting expeditions. Speaking for the majority, Chief Justice Warren Burger conceded the problem but insisted that courts could deal with it by keeping careful limits on the IRS power. After all. Burger added, many taxpayers innocently "hide large amounts of currency in odd places out of a fear of banks"-a fear that last week's decision will not diminish...
Chief Justice Warren Burger, outgoing Attorney General William Saxbe and current A.B. A. President James Fellers have all urged Congress to raise the salaries as well as the number of judges. But recession-laden legislators are likely to turn a deaf ear. It may be that the judges' only recourse is a semi-serious ploy proposed by one of them during last week's meeting. Citing the Constitution's command that a judge's pay "shall not be diminished," he suggested suing, arguing that failure to give cost-of-living increases amounted to such...
...When the burger blitz was over, John Bowers, supervisor of the two restaurants, maintained that he would keep on feeding the fans if Indiana kept on holding down the scores. "How often can you be in the same town with the best team in the nation?" he asked. "If they win it all, we're going to do some thing really special." Just what, Bowers had not yet decided. Would you believe a Big Mac, an order of fries and a chocolate shake...
...start, the scholars criticized the court's reasoning on the question of why it had the power to decide the case. Chief Justice Warren Burger twice cited the 1803 observation of Chief Justice John Marshall that "it is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is." But Stanford's Gunther argued that the use of the Marshall dictum was misleadingly broad; every constitutional issue, he said, is not automatically reviewable by the court. One example: impeachment. Chicago's Kurland put the point neatly when he noted that the opinion "says...
...court's central conclusion on Executive privilege drew even more fire. Burger held that the privilege was "intrinsically rooted" in the constitutional separation of powers, but "must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending [federal] criminal trial." Several of the experts wondered why the needs of a civil suit would be any less, or for that matter the needs of a state proceeding or a congressional inquiry. Nor could they understand the suggestion that a presidential claim based on national security might bar even judges from reviewing the material. "We are not told," said Columbia...