Word: connor
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...discrimination by not hiring women with children and that a California state disability plan was not discriminatory, even though it excluded pregnancy as a disability. If Harrington wants to stir things up a little more, she might speculate on whether the country's first woman Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, was more a jurist or a feminist. Her deciding vote in a case establishing
...majority in the case was fractionated, and the author of the prevailing opinion, Potter Stewart, has since retired. Now a new majority, including his replacement, Sandra Day O'Connor, has decided that the Justices erred last July. Since a warrantless auto search (with probable cause) is as legal as a regular search with a warrant, then the same guidelines apply, reasoned Justice John Paul Stevens in last week's decision. "When a legitimate search is under way, and when its purpose and its limits have been precisely defined, nice distinctions between . . . glove compartments, upholstered seats, trunks and wrapped...
...Habit of Being,by Flannery O'Connor...
...Collected Stories, by O'Connor...
...chief endorsed legislation authorizing the 71-member Supreme Court police force to carry guns off court property while accompanying the Justices or performing other duties. Threats against judges are on the rise nationally, and some have been made against the Justices, including two against Sandra Day O'Connor. So the extra protection looks good. Says Justice Thurgood Marshall: "I'd accept it. I'd rather not get killed...