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...fact, the Court judges pregnancy-related "rights" only once in this ruling. The majority opinion, signed by Justices O'Connor and Souter among others, veers surprisingly close to an implicit support of a woman's right to choose whether or not to bear a fetus to term...
...more palpable danger. "The bias in Johnson Controls' policy is obvious," he wrote. "Fertile men, but not fertile women, are given a choice as to whether they wish to risk their reproductive health for a particular job." Blackmun was supported by Justices Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens and David Souter, who as the newest member of the court was weighing in with his first significant vote on a women's rights issue...
Although business groups have met with failure in earlier attempts to seek relief from the court, they were heartened by indications that, given an appropriate case, the Justices might rule in their favor. Their disappointment last week was shared by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "Juries are permitted to target unpopular defendants, penalize unorthodox or controversial views, and redistribute wealth," she wrote in a dissenting opinion. "Multi-million- dollar losses are inflicted on a whim...
Imagine a library without the works of James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Sean O'Casey, John Synge, Liam O'Flaherty, George Bernard Shaw, Brendan Behan, Frank O'Connor, William Butler Yeats and Christy Brown...
Popular music would not be the same without the influence of Van Morrison, the social consciousness of U2, or the refreshing, if controversial, frankness of Sinead O'Connor...