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...half-century, the Supreme Court has been proclaiming and broadening a constitutional right to privacy, which Justice Brandeis described in 1928 as "the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man." Justice Douglas reasserted that idea in a landmark 1965 decision striking down a law forbidding married couples to use contraceptives (Griswold vs. Connecticut). Said he: "The First Amendment has a penumbra where privacy is protected from governmental intrusion...
...cautious: "It's all just puzzle fragments until you put it together." He will solve the puzzle somehow in August in Los Angeles. Crimes will be released in December. The house on North Caswell Street is to be sold. Southport's mayor has asked that it be accorded landmark status...
...examining a motion for summary judgment, judges must determine "whether the evidence presented is such that a reasonable jury might find that actual malice had been shown with convincing clarity." Specifically, said White, judges must assess such evidence in light of the stringent "clear and convincing" standard of the landmark 1964 libel case, New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan. The effect would be to make libel complaints more difficult to justify at the pretrial stage...
...University of Chicago Law School Professor Dennis Hutchinson, who is writing a biography of Jackson, calls Rehnquist's explanation "absurd." Jackson always instructed his clerks to express their own views, not his, says Hutchinson. Last year Rehnquist stated that he now believes that the Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision Brown vs. Board of Education outlawing school segregation is correct, but added, "I think there was a perfectly reasonable argument the other...
...court that was always swaying. But durable voting blocs were hard to forge among Justices who faced the divisive task of implementing broad principles that the Warren Court had merely sketched out: first the agreeable axioms of equality, then the vexing arithmetic of affirmative action. So in the landmark Bakke case, five Justices voted to invalidate a racial quota at a California medical school but five (Powell was in both camps) also approved the use of some race-conscious affirmative-action programs. In a string of decisions since then, the shifting coalitions on the court have tilted back and forth...