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...portion of the opinion of the four Justices who upheld the California Supreme Court decision in favor of Bakke: Burger, William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens and Potter Stewart. He also sided in part with the four Justices who decided against Bakke: William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall and Byron White. He thus ended by writing the critical opinion for a sharply divided court...
...Amis' introduction piles condition upon condition, the fear arises that his book will consist of blank pages. Instead, the anthology presents nearly 300 separate entries, the work of more than 120 poets. The only major writer to receive substantial space is Byron. Though it is preferable to read Don Juan whole, Amis' excerpts do underscore this long poem's consistent, sparkling hilarity. Byron on government bureaucrats is, unfortunately, still timely. Ask a neighbor, he advised...
...subpoena, which can be contested in court, and that freedom of the press under the First Amendment gives newsrooms much more protection against unreasonable searches and seizures than is granted, say, to banks or doctors' offices or private residences, under the Fourth Amendment. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White concluded: "Valid warrants may be issued to search any property ... at which there is probable cause to believe that fruits, instrumentalities or evidence of a crime will be found...
...difficulty began three weeks ago, when the new black co-minister of justice and law-and-order, Lawyer Byron Hove, 38, gave an interview. Hove is a colleague of Bishop Abel Muzorewa's, the most influential black member of the council, who had brought him home from London to serve in the new government. Noting that there were few blacks in the higher ranks of the present police force, let alone in the judiciary, Hove declared: "I don't think there is a single African in the upper echelons of my ministry." The reason, he said, was that...
Vigorously dissenting, Justice Byron White insisted that allowing corporations to spend money on political issues unrelated to their business would harm free speech. Corporate money, wrote White, can drown out individual expression. To defeat antinuclear-power referendums, he noted, firms in California outspent the opposition by $2.5 million to $1.6 million; in Montana, corporations raised $144,000 to their foes...