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...Rabbits are so human," begins Lockley in an echo of Beatrix Potter. Then he brings his audience up short with a question behaviorists have yet to answer...
...court was bitterly-and significantly-divided over the decision. The majority included all four of the "strict constructionists" appointed by President Nixon-Burger, William Rehnquist, Harry Blackmun and Lewis Powell-plus Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee. They were heatedly opposed by the court's four remaining Warren-era holdovers-William Brennan, Byron White, William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall. White, Douglas and Marshall filed dissenting opinions. Marshall, the court's only black member, described the ruling as "a giant step backward" for the court in the desegregation area. "In the short run," he wrote, "it may seem...
...POTTER STEWART, 59, a Republican appointed by Eisenhower in 1959, once seemed mildly conservative but has since moved to middle ground and often votes against the Nixon bloc. A strong supporter of civil rights and First Amendment privileges, as in his dissents in pornography cases. The most aware, least ivory tower among the Justices. Pragmatically concerned with a decision's impact. A modest phrasemaker in an effort to give the public a handle on a case's difficulties (on defining obscenity: "I know it when I see it"; on court antitrust decisions: "The only consistency is that the Government always...
Writing eight years ago about antitrust cases that came before the Supreme Court, Justice Potter Stewart grumbled: "The sole consistency that I can find is that . . . the Government always wins." His implication was that the high court's liberal majority, then headed by Earl Warren, would strike down any corporate merger that federal trustbusters challenged on any grounds at all. Lately, however, the court, now including four conservative judges appointed by President Nixon, among them Chief Justice Warren Burger, has been shifting to a considerably more permissive view of mergers...
...which employees should be compensated? No, said the Supreme Court last week by a vote of 6 to 3. At issue was a California law that provides payments for private employees who are temporarily disabled but excepts those with disabilities attributable to normal pregnancy. Speaking for the majority, Justice Potter Stewart found no evidence that California's treatment of pregnant women violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Concerned with the costs of increasing disability coverage, he wrote: "Nothing requires the state to create a more comprehensive social insurance program than it already...