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Rehnquist was one of two dissenters (the other: Byron White) from Roe vs. Wade, the court's 1973 decision creating a constitutional right to abortion, and he has repeatedly dissented from court decisions banning prayer in schools. Court decisions upholding affirmative action have regularly drawn his scornful dissents. "There is perhaps no device more destructive to the notion of equality than the . . . quota," Rehnquist wrote in United Steelworkers and Kaiser Aluminum vs. Weber in 1979. He adamantly opposes court-ordered busing to remedy school segregation. The Constitution, he wrote in a dissent from a 1979 decision upholding busing in Columbus...
...well that any affirmative-action plan must be "narrowly tailored" to achieve its ends, he went on to signal an inclination to reject race-based firing schemes for being too harsh on the innocent, but to look more favorably upon some hiring plans. A brief separate concurrence by Justice Byron White also stressed an aversion to layoff plans...
...even after Houston tied the game, the Lakers tried to take the final shot and win with a last-second hoop. Laker Byron Scott missed a long jumper and Houston--which had been out-rebounded nearly two to one--retrieved the ball and called time...
...dissent joined by William Rehnquist, Chief Justice Warren Burger complained that the majority had infringed on "a procedure which has been part of the common law for many centuries." A surprising member of the majority was Byron White, author of a 1965 court decision that last week's ruling overturned. "The time has come," said White, to take a further step to root out discrimination in jury selection...
EVERGREEN. On opening day in September 1971, the library stood only half built, its books stored in a brewery. "We didn't have any buildings or dorms," recalls Physics Teacher Byron Youtz. Some classes met in local churches, and one convened on a lakeshore. Faculty members had no promise of tenure, and the curriculum consisted--as it still does--of Socratic seminars, Great Books courses and the like. Instead of grades, students got written evaluations, and still do. The original student body of 1,000 included a fair number of hippie types, to the dismay of the down-home state...