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Burger and his closest ally, Rehnquist, now stand increasingly isolated on the right, while Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan hang onto the Warren tradition on the left. "Fragmented moderation," Michigan Law Professor Vincent Blasi calls it. "Even when they get clear majorities," says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther, "many different opinions come down. The Justices are tending to be loners, more isolated, less inclined to give and take...
...court. He accepted a portion of the opinion of the four Justices who upheld the California Supreme Court decision in favor of Bakke: Burger, William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens and Potter Stewart. He also sided in part with the four Justices who decided against Bakke: William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall and Byron White. He thus ended by writing the critical opinion for a sharply divided court...
...dissent, Justices Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens argued that the court had used the Presidential Recordings Act to frustrate the law's own purpose. Congress clearly intended, Marshall wrote, to ensure the American people "full access to all facts about the Watergate affair." Added Stevens: "For this court now to rely on the act as a basis for reversing the trial judge's considered judgment is ironic, to put it mildly...
Sixteen law school groups organized the demonstration to protest the planned appearance of U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger as the judge for the annual Ames Court competition, but U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall replaced Burger, who entered the hospital last week suffering from a serious back condition...
After listening to two hours of oral arguments last night, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall announced the decision in favor of the appellants in the final round of the 1977 Ames Moot Court competition at the Law School...