Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the counter-culture was going to have an impact on the nation's athletics, one of the most conservative, narrow and encrusted segments of our society." It did take a kind of Jock Jeremiah, though, to spread the word and to preach the gospel of locker-room dissent. That Scott has done. After teaching a course called "Intercollegiate Athletics and Education: A Socio-Psychological Evaluation" at the University of California at Berkeley last year, he founded his nonprofit institute to hold seminars, publish a newsletter and "help interpret what's going on in sport and make...
...vigorous 64-page dissent, Justice William Brennan argued that Harlan's view begged the crucial question: If the juries had no explicit standards on which to base their decisions, were the defendants given their guaranteed constitutional rights? Absolutely not, said Brennan. "Not once in the history of this Court, until today, have we sustained against a due process challenge such an unguided, unbridled, unreviewable exercise of naked power...
...surprising, after so much volatile dissent, after a decade of dangerously increased crime vastly complicated by overburdened courts and jails, that the rule of law has endured so well in the U.S. The violent strains of the past few years might, by many rules of human behavior, have led to vigilante gangs, urban civil war and brutal police and military retaliations. Sometimes they did. But overall, the New Left's nightmare of massive repression has become no more real than the rightists' premonitions of perpetual fire bombs and anarchy. Despite clangorous divisions in the nation, Americans remain almost...
...decide whether to move to the U.S. for five years. "The Supreme Court decision was a terrible disappointment to thousands of Americans living abroad," said Mrs. Michaux. "But we hope to win the second battle in Congress." If Congress balks, what Justice William Brennan Jr. called in his bitter dissent the "downgrading [of] citizens born outside the U.S." may become a permanent reality...
Fuld, in fact, has constantly enjoyed one of judging's greatest pleasures: seeing many of his dissents later become law. In 1951, for instance, the New York court upheld the banning of an Italian film, The Miracle, on the ground that it was "sacrilegious." In dissent, Fuld scoffingly asked the court majority: "What is orthodox, what sacrilegious? Whose orthodoxy, to whom sacrilegious?" Courts have since abandoned such censorship. Other Fuld dissents ultimately have been carried into law by the U.S. Supreme Court, on issues such as free speech, obscenity and literacy tests. Most recently, he led his court...