Word: thurgood
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...conservatives strictly limited to those five votes. Byron White is likely to join them on some cases, often those involving criminal law and police powers. Even John Paul Stevens supports them on many free-speech issues. That leaves Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun, both 82, the oldest members of the court, as its only unbudging liberals. "The swing Justices no longer control the outcome," says Duke University law professor Walter Dellinger. "There's no swing Justice, really...
...bitter dissent, Justice Thurgood Marshall pointed out that there was no comparable rule against frivolous appeals by fee-paying litigants. Wrote Marshall: "This court once had a great tradition: 'All men and women are entitled to their day in court.' That guarantee has now been conditioned on monetary worth...
...majority's reasoning provoked a sharp dissent from Justice Byron R. White, who ordinarily sides with the Chief Justice on cases involving criminal procedure. Speaking for himself and Justices Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens, White took the unusual step of reading aloud his own strongly worded opinion from the bench. Confessions are different from other kinds of evidence, White reasoned. Their impact upon a juror's thinking is too powerful...
...time, of a vanishing breed. Separate but Equal, a two-part ABC movie, portrays the events leading up to the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision outlawing segregation in public schools. Sidney Poitier, in his first TV appearance since 1955, stars as future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who headed the N.A.A.C.P.'s legal effort. Burt Lancaster, another rare bird in television land, plays Marshall's courtroom adversary, John W. Davis. George Stevens Jr., whose father created some of Hollywood's great epics, was writer and director...
...nature of the policy to be a more palpable danger. "The bias in Johnson Controls' policy is obvious," he wrote. "Fertile men, but not fertile women, are given a choice as to whether they wish to risk their reproductive health for a particular job." Blackmun was supported by Justices Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens and David Souter, who as the newest member of the court was weighing in with his first significant vote on a women's rights issue...