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Calling it "the most important sex discrimination case" since 1964, dissenting Judge Frank Easterbrook, a conservative Reagan appointee, assailed the ruling. Citing research indicating that contaminated men also risk injuring their offspring, he wrote, "No legal or ethical principle . . . allows Johnson to assume that women are less able than men to make intelligent decisions about the welfare of the next generation, that the interests of the next generation always trump the interests of living woman, and that the only acceptable level of risk is zero...
Without hearing arguments or issuing an opinion, the high court voted 6 to 3 to uphold that decision. (The dissenters wanted to hear arguments.) In the appeals-court ruling, Judge Frank Easterbrook, a Reagan appointee, agreed that depictions of subordination perpetuate subordination. But, he wrote, this did not permit Indianapolis to hold that materials presenting women in sexual encounters premised on equality were lawful, no matter how explicit, while those treating them in the "disapproved way" were unlawful, no matter how valuable the whole work. Said Easterbrook: "This is thought control...
Traditionally, IBM has been so deep in talent that its alumni have gone on to staff laboratories and executive suites throughout the computer industry. "Almost everybody in the business seems to be a former IBMer," observes William Easterbrook, an ex-IBM manager in Copenhagen who now watches the computer industry for Kidder, Peabody, a Wall Street securities firm. Illustrious former employees include Gene Amdahl, founder of Amdahl Corp. (1982 sales: $462 million), which makes large computers; Joe M. Henson, president of Prime Computer (1982 sales: $436 million), a major producer of minicomputers; and David Martin, president of National Advanced Systems...
Greater competition has also meant a more urgent need to guard trade secrets. Says William Easterbrook, a computer-industry analyst at the Kidder, Peabody & Co. investment firm: "IBM is going all out, both to develop and introduce technology, and to protect what they already have...
...Easterbrook, however, is less happy with court rulings on Fourth Amendment questions dealing with search and seizure...