Word: connore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Rex Lee, whose office argued in favor of the Alabama law, expressed "great surprise," given that the court seemed to be abandoning its recent inclination to "accommodate" religion. It had done so, for example, in cases upholding legislative chaplains and government- sponsored Nativity scenes. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's sixth vote concurring with the majority was another shock to conservatives. Her failure to support a more pro-prayer position, as did Dissenters Warren Burger, William Rehnquist and Byron White, is "staggering," said Dan Alexander, president of the Mobile County school board at the time Jaffree sued...
...There's been much more than a generation's worth of change," says Joal Peters O'Connor '60. "We were so accepting and now people question.. The whole thing was part of the structure... We didn't know enough to be disgruntle; we didn't know enough to think it was different. It was the way things were...
...Radcliffe women, says O'Connor, "There were certain things you didn't do, some stated, some...
...final encounter last week when the U.S. Supreme Court held 6 to 3 that the Nation magazine had committed publishing "piracy" by quoting too liberally from a "purloined" copy of Gerald Ford's memoirs, A Time to Heal. But the majority opinion, written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, was so narrowly drawn that even many of those who had sided with the Nation were not seriously upset. "There is always a natural tension between the First Amendment and copyright law," said Bruce Sanford, general counsel for the Society of Professional Journalists, "and this does not alter the balance very...
...reversing that decision, the Supreme Court ruled that "the unpublished nature of a work" tends "to negate a defense of fair use." Wrote O'Connor: "Where an author and publisher have invested extensive resources in creating an original work and are poised to release it to the public, no legitimate aim is served by pre-empting the right of first publication." The majority made clear that "no author may copyright facts or ideas." Protection is limited to "those aspects of the work . . . that display the < stamp of the author's originality." The Nation's view that using Ford's words...