Word: thurgood
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...court threw out a $97,500 judgment won by a rape victim against the Florida Star. The small, weekly Jacksonville paper had, contrary to state law, / published the victim's name after obtaining it from a public police report. If the government has made information publicly available, wrote Justice Thurgood Marshall, those who publish it should not be punished...
...considered a liberal, joined with Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White in dissent. On the other side, Ronald Reagan's two conservative appointees, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, showed that when basic First Amendment rights were involved, they could come down in defense even of flag burning. Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun rounded out the 5-to-4 majority...
...involves the members of the fraternities and sororities themselves. Some of the most influential and productive citizens of the United States are or were members of the fraternities and sororities, among them the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Louis Sullivan of the Bush cabinet and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (all of them members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity). If organizations that could boast of such people were allowed to organize on Harvard's campus, the benefits to the Harvard, Cambridge and Boston communities would be immeasurable...
...think some Justices will put a lot of weight on having a stronger majority," says Columbia University law professor Vincent Blasi. "I also think they'll be confident that in the next few years they will get it." With Roe supporters William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun all in their 80s, George Bush is likely to be able to make some court appointments...
...court, Chief Justice William Rehnquist conceded - that Sokolow's behavior could have been "consistent with innocent travel." But "taken together," his actions elicited "reasonable suspicion." Concluded Rehnquist: "The fact that these factors may be set forth in a 'profile' does not somehow detract from their evidentiary significance." Dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall saw things quite differently. An agent's "reflexive reliance" on a profile, he wrote, is likely to subject "innocent individuals to unwarranted police harassment." Drug-enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Customs Service, insist that drug profiles are meant only to inform and advise agents and that actual arrests depend...