Word: fortases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When newly sworn Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas wrote his first dissent at the end of 1965, the issue involved a minor dispute over a Small Business Administration contract. With characteristic energy, Fortas prepared a meticulously reasoned draft. When it was circulated among his colleagues, two members of the five...
It was a fitting beginning. In the three years that Fortas has been on the court, his incisive reasoning has propelled him past some of the more senior Justices to a position as one of the court's most brilliant and intriguing members. Last week the public at large...
Demoralized Side. Fortas, 58, wrote the booklet during and after a series of speaking trips to college campuses last year. Those trips "got me scared," he explained. Sympathetic to the aspirations of rebellious Negroes, Viet Nam war protesters and students, he fully endorses their right to dissent; yet he points...
Need for Specifics. Dissenting, Justice Abe Fortas pointed out that the boy had been directed to make the purchase by his mother in an effort to get Ginsberg convicted. "Bookselling," said Fortas, "should not be a hazardous profession." The magazines that Sam Ginsberg sold were admittedly not obscene for adults...
As Fortas indicated, the court did not say what the standards should be. But it did note that New York's standards, whether acceptable or not, were at least precisely stated. That was not so in the companion case of a Dallas ordinance that sought to bar juveniles under...