Word: thurgood
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Writing in dissent, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall argued that the existence of one-race schools in a previously segregated district was "inherently unequal," regardless of the reason. In view of the "unique harm" associated with school segregation, he said, the offending district should be held accountable for any taint of separateness until it had been entirely removed...
Once the news spread, colleges took a range of precautions. Dartmouth abruptly put on hold its planned announcement of a $20,000-a-year Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship. Johns Hopkins sought advice from its lawyers. Other institutions were more defiant. The American Council on Education, a lobbying and research organization, told its 1,800 member colleges and universities to ignore the opinion. Declared Florida Atlantic's Catanese: "We are not going to adhere to this directive because we think it is wrong...
...quickly appealed the ruling and on November 18, just one day after the last briefs were filed, the Supreme Court refused to lift the order. The court ruled 7 to 2 against CNN, with an unusual pair of justices, Sandra Day O'Connor and Thurgood Marshall, dissenting...
...wondered if the 50-year-old lifelong bachelor might be gay. (Friends assured them he is not.) Others speculated that Souter's streak of Yankee independence would make him a less than reliable vote for either side of the abortion issue. In a rambling television interview last week, Justice Thurgood Marshall, a last vestige of the high court's liberal wing, took the unusual step of sizing up in public a man who may soon sit alongside him on the bench. Harrumphed Marshall: "Never heard...
...clerks really wield? According to one recent alumnus, "a clerk has influence but never makes a decision." The power comes, he explains, "from being able to track down information and think of new ways to argue a case." Says AFL-CIO lawyer Walter Kamiat, once a clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall: "In most chambers, the Justices are looking for all the perspectives in a case. I did not feel it was my function to insert my views in opinions, but it was my responsibility to raise any issues I saw." Justice Department lawyer James Feldman, who clerked for Justice William...