Word: connor
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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor insisted that her gender would not impact her decisions. "I think the important fact about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases." Nonetheless, since her appointment the court has become remarkably more supportive of sex discrimination complaints, according to a study of cases decided before and after O'Connor's appointment...
According to the court's ruling, the legal burden of proof shifts to Price Waterhouse. The firm must establish that it would have rejected Hopkins' partnership bid based on purely nondiscriminatory factors. "At this point," noted Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, "the employer may be required to convince the fact finder that, despite the smoke, there is no fire." The court's decision to shift the burden to the employer should make it easier for many employees to win Title VII cases, which also bar job discrimination on the basis of race, religion and national origin...
During the one-hour courtroom session, attention was fastened upon the questions posed by the pivotal Reagan-appointed Justices: Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor. Their inquiries to lawyers on both sides ranged far from the Missouri law restricting abortion to the larger question of where to draw the borders of privacy rights. Do these rights encompass abortion? If not, is contraception excluded too? As for the four Justices who regularly support Roe, only John Paul Stevens took an active part in the proceedings. Harry Blackmun, who wrote the landmark opinion, sat silently throughout...
...former Solicitor General Charles Fried, called back by the Bush Administration to argue this case, who made the broad attack, presenting the White House argument that Roe should be overturned. In the most interesting exchanges of the morning, O'Connor and Kennedy appeared to press Fried to explain how the court could reverse Roe without also undoing a crucial 1965 decision, Griswold v. Connecticut. In that ruling the court found that the right of privacy protects the decision to use contraceptives. Abortion is different, Fried replied, because it involves the purposeful termination of potential life. "We are not asking...
...example, the ever fatuous Cardinal O'Connor could not resist blaming the park assault on, well, society. We must all "assume our responsibility," he & intoned, "for being indifferent to the circumstances that breed crimes of this sort." What circumstances? "Communities which know nothing but frustration...