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ALBANY, N.Y.--Splashing through a sea of mud, the controversial South African Springboks played an American rugby team Tuesday night, hours after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to stop the game...
...Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 22 of those years as executive director. His "crowning glory," he said, was the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education, which overturned the doctrine of separate but equal educational facilities. The case was planned by Wilkins and argued by Thurgood Marshall, then N.A.A.C.P. special counsel and now a Supreme Court Justice...
...dissenting, Justice Thurgood Marshall cited military estimates that 80,000 positions (out of a total of 650,000) could be filled by women in the event of a mobilization. Wrote Marshall: "In an attempt to avoid its constitutional obligation, the court today 'pushes back the limits of the Constitution' to accommodate an act of Congress...
...news was doubly a surprise because other Justices had been considered for more likely to depart. Five occupants of the bench are over 70 and two, William Brennan, 75, and Thurgood Marshall, 72, are reportedly in less than robust health. President Reagan now has an unexpectedly early opportunity to begin his oft-promised ideological remolding of the court. His main criterion for candidates is clearly known, said White House Spokesman Larry Speaks, " He will not seek only candidates who necessarily agree with him on every position, but rather those who share one key view, the role of the courts...
...guarantee of privacy in his home. The Justices decided, 7 to 2, that an arrest warrant alone does not authorize police to enter homes, other than a suspect's own, where they think he may be hiding. Specific search warrants for those homes are required, wrote Thurgood Marshall, because an arrest warrant protects the rights of only the suspect...