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...good year for jurists," one Mass Hall source said. The source listed Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor, and Supreme Court Justices Thurgood G. Marshall, Stewart and Byron R. White as the most likely contenders...
Surprisingly, it was Douglas who spoke for the majority. Obviously reflecting his conservationist leanings, he found it "reasonable, not arbitrary" to "lay out zones where family values, youth values and the blessings of quiet seclusion and clean air make the area a sanctuary for people." Only Dissenter Thurgood Marshall felt that such zoning transparently discriminates "on the basis of constitutionally protected choices of lifestyle." If the village had really been worried about population density, Marshall pointed out, it could have limited the number of adults in every house, regardless of the presence or lack of familial relationships...
Trouble is, he and others like him, acting on their own, might not be able to afford the expenses involved in proving a complex case. That does "no judicial system credit," said William Brennan for Fellow Dissenters William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall. The three also pointed out that the decision could lead to more individual suits in the state and federal courts where previously one collective proceeding would have covered a specific issue. But the majority apparently believes that tough standards will at least cut the federal work load. Consumer and environmental advocates fear that the new decision...
...arrest establishes the authority to search." That has always been true for people charged with serious crimes; this time the court was refusing to make a distinction or to call for less intrusive treatment even though a traffic offense was the only reason for the arrest. The minority of Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan and William Douglas thought that such distinctions were precisely what judges should consider in trying to decide whether a search was reasonable as required by the Fourth Amendment...
...weeks ago Federal District Judge Orrin Judd ruled in Brooklyn that the bombing was "unauthorized and unlawful." His ruling was quickly made temporarily ineffective by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and a few days later Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, stressing procedural grounds rather than the merits of the case, permitted the bombing to continue...