Word: burger
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...dispute first went to the Federal Communications Commission. Relying on a "reasonable access" guarantee in a 1972 statute, the FCC ordered the networks to grant Carter's request. Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for a six-man majority, backed up both the FCC and the statute, which he said "represents an effort by Congress to assure that an important resource - the air waves - will be used in the public interest...
...causing or are likely to cause serious damage to the national security or foreign policy of the U.S." Congress gave the Executive Branch the power to oversee such matters in 1926, but Agee argued that the 1966 regulation was too sweeping. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Warren Burger disagreed, maintaining that Congress had long recognized the Executive's broad passport authority and had passed up obvious opportunities to limit...
Citizens in Weston, Conn., argue over a school budget [June 8] that allows students to choose among 27 courses in foreign and ancient languages, while Chief Justice Warren Burger urges that prison inmates be taught to "read, write and do simple arithmetic...
...wife Mary Ann to conclude that this term, his 23rd, should be his last. Last week, a month after Stewart had quietly deliverd a letter of resignation to President Reagan, he announced his decision. Not even his colleagues inside the court except Chief Justice Warren Burger, had known about it until one day before his press conference. Said he, "I'm a firm believer that it's better to go too soon than to stay too long...
...Clark. Others predict that he will select an academic like Yale's Robert Bork or Chicago's Philip Kurland. The nation's lower courts offer Reagan such conservatives as Dallin Oaks of the Utah Supreme Court and Malcolm Wilkey, an old friend of Chief Justice Warren Burger's who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals...