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...court, 6 to 3, upheld a Brookfield, Wis., city ordinance that forbids picketing of individual residences. Writing for the majority, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the law, which was passed after right-to-life demonstrators began picketing the home of a physician who performs abortions, serves the significant Government interest of protecting residential privacy. But at the same time, O'Connor distinguished the ordinance from a prohibition against "general marching through the neighborhood." The antiabortion group has vowed to do just that...
...decisive vote came from Justice O'Connor, who ruled narrowly that Oklahoma could not carry out such executions because the state had never specified a minimum age in its death-penalty law. O'Connor stopped short of ruling on whether juvenile executions would be constitutional even in states that expressly permit them. That saved Thompson, but it left the larger issue at a standstill. The court has promised to review the question next year when it considers the cases of two other inmates on death row for crimes committed as juveniles...
...bracing for the next round of challenges. The top targets: exclusionary country clubs and golf courses. The famed Burning Tree Club in Bethesda, Md., for instance, does not allow women to set foot on its greens as either members or guests. For the record, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is an avid golfer...
...West, Raisa has earned high marks for her breadth of knowledge. At a private party given by Washington Hostess Pamela Harriman, the widow of Averell Harriman, who was U.S. Ambassador in Moscow from 1943 to 1946, Raisa discussed the U.S. Supreme Court with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and brought up the inner workings of Congress with Senators Barbara Mikulski and Nancy Kassebaum. However, Mikulski later said that "Mrs. Gorbachev is like an East European professor who speaks in paragraphs. There is no free exchange with...
...involved, but they are not obliged to. And the rules that govern agency hearings are different from those that prevail in a courtroom: it is up to the accused to prove their innocence. "We have a rule in American jurisprudence that the penalty fits the crime," says Colleen O'Connor of the American Civil Liberties Union. "Confiscation of millions of dollars in property for a joint doesn...