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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...
& Yes and no, said the judges. The delegation as such is lawful, but only a member of the Executive Branch can be directed to carry out a law that Congress enacts. The Comptroller General "cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or eye of the Executive," even...
The Supreme Court accepted the lower courts' determinations that both warrants were defective, but found that the police had acted in the good-faith belief that the searches they made were lawful. Justice Byron White argued that the principal justification for the exclusionary rule was to deter police misconduct...
Chief Justice Warren Burger noted that 200 volunteers were searching for the child's body at the time Williams led po lice to it, and that it would have been "inevitably discovered" by lawful means without his help. That being so, wrote Burger, it "would reject logic, experience and...
When blacks demanded civil rights in Birmingham during the early '60s, the Alabama city answered with police dogs and fire hoses. A decade later, blacks sued to integrate the same Birmingham police and fire departments that had forcibly put them down. After a drawn-out legal struggle, the city...