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...retreat in Goose-prairie, Wash.; so in a pinch, his secretary calls a neighbor who lives six miles away. When Douglas wants to call, he drives 40 miles to a roadside phone booth outside Yakima, Wash., drops in a dime and gets his office collect. Keeping contact with Thurgood Marshall also has its difficulties. In the Virgin Islands in July, he broke an ankle in a Jeep accident. Last summer he had appendicitis, and two summers ago he got pneumonia. "We have a regular routine here," says his secretary. "I go on vacation and the Justice goes to the hospital...
...Justices agreed that Holmes' decision, which created a unique status for baseball among professional sports, was a poor one. Justice William O. Douglas, one of the dissenters, called it "a derelict in the stream of law." Said Justice Thurgood Marshall: "We do not lightly overrule our prior constructions of federal statutes, but when our errors deny substantial federal rights... we must admit our error and correct it." The rights involved were those of former St. Louis Cardinal Outfielder Curt Flood. He had charged that baseball's "reserve clause," which binds all players to the teams that own their...
...this is not an invitation to moral softheadedness, a coddling of the malign. Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke for all time when he said, "Anarchy is anarchy, and it makes no difference who practices it. It is bad, it is punishable, and it should be punished." Yet that punishment must rise from rational response to irrational acts. Unfortunately, perhaps tragically, if it is to remain open, human society must assume certain risks. They need not include insanity, terrorism, murder. But they had better include the liberty of action. Total-in other words, totalitarian-security means, ultimately, the Astrodome made global...
...four dissenters had such a variety of objections that they all filed opinions. Said Thurgood Marshall: "The reasonable-doubt rule establishes that the prosecutor must overcome all of the jury's reasonable doubts," which is hardly the case when he "has tried and failed to persuade [dissenting] jurors." Potter Stewart raised the issue of how a divided jury might split; now, he said, "nine jurors can simply ignore the views of their fellow panel members of a different race or class." William Douglas argued that the loss of unanimity means that "if a necessary majority is immediately obtained, then...
COURTS. There is not, and never has been, a woman Justice on the Supreme Court. Only one of the nine Justices, Thurgood Marshall, has a woman as his clerk (she is Barbara Underwood, the fourth woman to hold such a post). Among the 97 federal appeals court judges, California's Shirley Hufstedler is the only woman All but four of the 402 federal district court judges are men Of the total of about 10,000 judges in all courts throughout the U.S., only some 200 are women...