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...Lakers traded guards Norm Nixon and Eddie Jordon to the San Diego Clippers in exchange for center Swen Nater and the rights to unsigned guard Byron Scott...
...worth aide says that the Columbia and Calbolic maneuver's were somewhat different and were "purely political." But Keyworth's unusual move in awarding the advanced materials center to Berkeley without the proper poor review may have provoked the similar actions by Columbia and Catholic. The Rev. William Byron, Catholic's president says that it was the Berkeley move which seemed to condone their later lobbying...
...decision is the most important handed down during the court's current session, and it may be the most significant constitutional ruling in decades. Associate Justice Byron White, who entered an acerbic, almost bitter dissent, acknowledged the decision's "surpassing importance." But he described the majority opinion as "irresponsible" and of "destructive scope." Even Associate Justice Lewis Powell, who agreed with the majority that in this case the legislative veto was unconstitutional, complained that "the breadth of this holding gives one pause...
...Justices who originally opposed Roe vs. Wade, Byron White and William Rehnquist, were joined last week by Sandra Day O'Connor, who authored the strongly worded dissent (see box). O'Connor argued that the state's interest in protecting potential human life exists in all stages of the pregnancy. She wrote: "In Roe, the court held that although the state had an important and legitimate interest in protecting potential life, that interest could not become compelling until the point at which the fetus was viable. The difficulty with this analysis is clear: potential life is no less...
...allows a "good faith" exception to the exclusionary rule; that would mean illegally gathered evidence could be used in criminal trials if police acted in the reasonable belief that what they were doing was constitutional. At least five Justices have indicated reservations about the rule, and one of them, Byron White, said in his separate opinion last week that a "good faith" exception should be created. But, citing procedural reasons, other Justices backed off the issue for now. Instead, the majority turned to another issue in the case and chipped away at two Warren Court rulings to make the issuing...