Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Writing for the high court's majority, Justice Potter Stewart acknowledged that there is a "strong societal interest" in open trials. But he left for another day the question whether judges must weigh that interest against the defendant's right to a fair trial. The Sixth Amendment'...
Branzburg vs. Hayes (1972). A reporter has no right to withhold information about his sources from a grand jury in a criminal investigation. The court was unmoved by the contention that confidential sources will dry up if reporters can be compelled to reveal them.
When Richard Nixon appointed four Supreme Court Justices between 1969 and 1973-Chief Justice Warren Burger and Associate Justices Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell-the President fully expected them to halt, if not reverse, the steady expansion of individual rights that had begun under the activist Warren Court...
Minority Rights. On the last day of the session, the court upheld massive school busing to desegregate schools in Columbus and Dayton, Ohio. The decisions, reached by 7-to-2 and 5-to-4 votes, reaffirmed a rule established by the court in 1973: if a plaintiff proves that a...
Crime. If the Burger Court had been the law-and-order court Nixon hoped it would be, it would have overturned earlier decisions giving broad effect to the Fourth Amendment prohibition against "unreasonable searches and seizures." But this year the court upheld Fourth Amendment claims more often than not. In...