Word: connors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justices were reached by court operators setting up an extraordinary conference call of the U.S. Supreme Court. Only Sandra Day O'Connor, who was traveling in Africa, was not available for the hurriedly arranged session. The Justices had been asked, at the very last hour, to decide whether to allow the execution later that night of Frank J. Coppola, 38, a convicted murderer who wished to die. After discussing the case, Chief Justice Warren Burger and four others voted to overturn a stay that had been issued by an appeals judge earlier in the day. About 45 minutes later...
...Civil Rights Act will probably not guarantee a Women's Legal Defense Fund testimonial. But her majority decision, handed down last Thursday, that an all-woman nursing school in Mississippi was guilty of sex discrimination is sure to rekindle a few low-burning fires in the feminist camp. O'Connor even added a kind of bonus in her written decision, when she pointed out that such segregation by sex only succeeds in reinforcing the stereotype of nursing as a woman's profession. For all the sense of debts owed and steps taken, there is a simultaneous impression of reluctance...
Some of the greatest progress has been made in admissions to law and medical schools. A third of the graduating class of Harvard Medical is made up of women. Law has had to practice what it has preached and legislated. When Justice O'Connor graduated from law school in 1952, the only job she was offered by major West Coast law firms was that of legal secretary. Now, if a firm wants the top of the law school class, it has to skim women along with men in the cream of the crop; 30.2% of 1981's graduates were women...
...state's termination of her parental rights over her three children. The ruling, as Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz points out, hewed to the clearest trend of the term: "limitation of access to federal courts." A new force pushing this movement was Sandra Day O'Connor. Says Gewirtz: "She came in with quite a clear agenda on this and other aspects of federalism. And she's not cautious; her decisions were quite bold for the first term...
Last week O'Connor also wrote a decision reaffirming the court's "heightened scrutiny" of sex discrimination cases; the opinion, which held that a state nursing school for women must admit men, was issued one day after the death of the ERA ratification drive. In another decision, the court ruled unanimously that the N.A.A.C.P. was not liable for damages as a result of a mostly peaceful boycott. The court decided to put off to next year ruling on a lawsuit challenging the right of a house of Congress to veto regulations issued by federal agencies. But, as detailed...