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...other three Nixon nominees and Byron White joined the Chief Justice in a new test for pornography. It is now constitutional, said Burger, for states to ban any "works which, taken as a whole, appeal to the prurient interest in sex,'which portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and which, taken as a whole, do not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value...
Ervin said he himself had no such present plans. But in a Supreme Court decision last June requiring reporters to testify before grand juries, Justice Byron White dropped a now much-referred-to quotation from Jeremy Bentham: "Were the Prince of Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord High Chancellor to be passing by in the same coach while a chimney sweeper and a barrow-woman were in dispute about a halfpennyworth of apples, and the chimney sweeper or the barrow-woman were to think proper to call upon them for their evidence, could they refuse it? No, most...
With holdover Justices Byron White and Potter Stewart also tending toward that view, the court seems to have taken a right turn in criminal cases. As Simon puts it, 4N + X = L.A.O.-that is, four Nixon nominees plus White or Stewart equals law-and-order. Surprisingly, there has been little erosion of desegregation decisions or of one-man, one-vote reapportionment cases. Indeed, "except in the criminal area, the individual rights won under the Warren Court still stand." But, in Simon's judgment, "for the new interest groups, such as environmentalists, the new court direction suggests that they...
...BYRON LUND...
CAPPELLA IS ABOUT dependency. Byron and Cappella become so reliant on each other that they merge into one. Byron is submissive to the female surgeon Pauline, but their interdependence is mutually satisfying. Byron is also dependent on the copyist, who, though blind, is the final historical record of Byron's thoughts and deeds. It is as the copyist himself says, the story of slave and master...