Word: burger
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...Burger court is the second oldest in history, with an average age of 70, less than two years younger than the Nine Old Men who made Franklin Roosevelt miserable until they began leaving the court in 1937. The present high bench is "the first ever to have a majority of its members 76 or over," calculates Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. Even the younger Justices have reached the outer edges of middle age. The youngest, Sandra Day O'Connor, celebrated her 55th birthday last week...
...tell for it, Mr. Howe. The cardinal rule of advertising to get the person's attention. It doesn't matter how. The ad can be distasteful, like Burger King Kiddies' "na na na na na" jingle about their victory in some taste-test, or fantastic and sex filled, like the Edge ad. Remember that this ad appeared in a Newsweek supplement distributed solely to college students. It was targeted for you and it worked...
...more than a decade the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have been complaining that they are overworked, and Chief Justice Warren Burger has recently renewed his call for a national appeals court to help relieve the burden. But is the work load really so heavy? Well, yes, answer a bevy of new scholarly articles, but the fault lies with the Justices...
...years now, the Burger Supreme Court has snipped at the boundaries of Warren Court precedents--too timidly for some conservatives; heavy-handedly to many liberals' way of thinking. The process has been especially prevalent in criminal-justice cases, and the court, having again scheduled a hefty batch of such rulings this term, continued its chip-chip-chipping away last week by taking a new chunk out of the Miranda rule. That familiar doctrine requires police to advise detained suspects of their rights to remain silent and to obtain a lawyer. When a suspect "voluntarily" makes a damning admission before being...
While focusing on the right to psychiatric help, Marshall's opinion hinted that states may be required to provide poor defendants with other experts. Ballistics specialists, for example. Nor did Marshall restrict aid to indigents accused of crimes carrying the death penalty. Chief Justice Warren Burger, in a concurring opinion, would have made such a distinction, guaranteeing psychiatric aid only for capital cases...