Word: stewart
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...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...
...chose not to ask St. Clair pointblank whether Nixon would comply. St. Clair adroitly sidestepped whenever the question seemed imminent. Yet the subject became tantalizingly relevant when several Justices objected to Jaworski's charge that Nixon was setting himself up as the sole judge of the Constitution. As Justice Stewart said...
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...
...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...
...proceedings yielded mainly dross in an atmosphere heavy with cannabis. Among the few taking matters seriously was the groom's mother, Alpha Stewart, 57, who gave her maternal blessing. "If this couple can live 40 years married as my husband and I have lived, well, they can make it if they try," she declared. There were those in the audience who thought she was perhaps referring to Sly's former reputation for failing to fulfill engagements. Then she introduced Family Friend Bishop B.R. Stewart of the Church of God in Christ, who had replaced, at her insistence...