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...Justice Earl Warren for the 6-3 majority which set aside the Alabama decision: "The circumstances of pressure applied against the power of resistance of this petitioner, who cannot be deemed other than weak of will or mind, deprived him of due process of law." From Justice John Marshall Harlan (joined by Stanley Reed and Harold Burton) came a vigorous dissent. The gist: not only was there no physical coercion but "psychological coercion is by no means manifest"; on the basis of the record, the state authorities did nothing more serious in their handling of the case than "offend some...
...Government force a U.S. company to compete in foreign markets? Answered the U.S. Supreme Court last week: it can indeed. By a 4-to-4 tie vote (Justice Harlan disqualified himself from the case), the court let stand a lower-court ruling that Holophane Co., maker of prismatic glassware, must not only scrap all agreements with foreign companies to split up world markets but actively push its products overseas regardless of foreign laws or its own economic best interest. Snapped Justice Hugo Black, incredulously, during the hearing: "Is what you are saying this: that a distiller must...
...hill to climb. Former U.S. Congressman Thruston Ballard Morton, 49, also a Yaleman, astonished politicos in Kentucky's normally Democratic Third District (Louisville) by winning three successive terms to the House (1947-52), but he is virtually unknown outside the district. In the backwoods mining settlements of "Bloody Harlan" County, the mountaineers did not take kindly to the "furriner" with the citified manners and precise diction. But Kentucky's strongly TVA-minded citizens nonetheless liked the way that Morton frankly tackled questions on such local boiling points as Dixon-Yates ("It's a bad deal...
...court since Frank Murphy) and lifelong Democrat (one of six). More important, Brennan is a jurist of solid experience and reputation (see box), was recommended for the job by New Jersey's able Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, and will be-with Justice Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan-one of the three Supreme Court Justices with bench experience prior to appointment...
...Geography of the court: Warren, California; Black, Alabama; Reed, Kentucky; Frankfurter (who was born in Vienna, taught at Harvard), Massachusetts; Douglas, Washington; Harlan, New York; Burton, Ohio; Clark, Texas; outgoing Shay Minton, Indiana...