Word: potter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Justice Brennan is still on the bench, but Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Abe Fortas, who joined him in that opinion, are gone. Douglas, who concurred is now out of the argument, at least for the Massachusetts case. Brennan's only allies are likely to be Justice Potter Stewart who concurred in Fanny on the basis t his own test for hard-core pornography ("I know it when I see it"), and Justice Hugo Black, who, like Douglas argues that the First Amendment prohibits all censorship. Justices John M. Harlan and Byron White have argued that states should...
...large cast, only Dana Ferry as Hermione's lady and Sarah Stearns as Perdita match Leigh Wood's exceptional performance. Carol Potter as Hermione was extremely attractive but a bit pompous, Jason Kanter's inspired portrayal of Autoclycus made the pastoral segments less dull. The rest of the company showed admirable enthusiasm...
RACE. Burger has lately voiced some doubts about the court's summary handling of recent school integration cases. In January, he and Justice Potter Stewart added to one decision a "memorandum" suggesting that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals might well have been allowed to interpret the meaning of "at once" in the light of "the various situations of [the] several school districts." A Burger concurring opinion to another decision became an important part of Nixon's desegregation message three weeks ago. Burger urged the court to take future school cases that could "resolve some of the basic...
...even more from herself. It is also a gift, not of the best acting, singing and dancing, but of the distilled essence of a full life experience poured through those modes of expression. Like her friend Katharine Hepburn, she welds character and personality. Thanks to nature's potter, she also happens to be a striking beauty...
...concept: Justices Holmes and Louis Brandeis argued thai even the most revolutionary rhetoric is protected unless it poses a "clear and present danger" of inciting insurrection. Though never accepted as official doctrine, that idea eventually helped expand the boundaries of protected protest. Speaking for the court in 1963, Justice Potter Stewart approvingly quoted a lower court's reminder that "a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may, indeed, best serve its function when it induces a condition of unrest, or even stirs people to anger...