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Justice O'Connor teams up with court Conservative Rehnquist
...term, when Blackmun, newly arrived on the Supreme Court, voted more than 90% of the time with Burger, his fellow Minnesotan and childhood chum. Now come the Arizona Twins. In 48 of 52 written opinions this term, former Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Sandra Day O'Connor has sided with her Stanford Law School classmate, one-time Phoenix Lawyer William Rehnquist. The latest evidence of the like-mindedness of O'Connor and the high bench's leading conservative came last week in two areas: upholding seniority systems even if they favor white males, and limiting the right...
Another trend on the court-toward the Chief Justice's oft-stated goal of cutting back on the review of criminal cases-got a boost in two opinions on habeas corpus written by O'Connor. One ruling involved claims by three Ohio convicts that their trial judges had given improper instructions to the jury. None of their lawyers had objected on that ground at the trial. The three said they were nevertheless entitled to federal review of their convictions via habeas corpus petitions if they could show that the judges' actions constituted "plain error...
...court decisions and congressional testimony, the freshman Justice has forcefully voiced her belief that the federal courts are awash in cases that do not belong there. Many arrive through use of the writ of habeas corpus. "The Great Writ," O'Connor wrote last week, "undermines the usual principles of finality of litigation. Liberal allowance of the writ, moreover, degrades the prominence of the trial itself." Finally, she argued, the endless federal review interferes with state courts. As firmly as such views have put O'Connor in Rehnquist's camp, the new Justice is by no means guaranteed...
...second team: goaltender Bob O'Connor, Boston College, defenseman Mark Fusco, Harvard; Randy Velischek, Providence; forward Billy O'Dwyer, Boston College, forward Kurt Kleinendorst, Providence; forward Dan Poliziani, Yale...