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...Justice Thurgood Marshall, delivering the Court's opinion on two draft cases, said, "We hold that Congress intended to exempt persons who oppose participating in all war... and that persons who object solely to participation in a particular war are not with-in the purview of the exempting section...
...Hugo Black, who, like Douglas argues that the First Amendment prohibits all censorship. Justices John M. Harlan and Byron White have argued that states should be allowed greater latitude in enforcing their own standards of obscenity and Chief Justice Warren Burger agrees. The key votes could be those of Thurgood Marshall, who joined the court after Fanny Hill, and Harry Blackmun who may well be confirmed before the Maryland case is disposed...
...respectively. Of the nation's 300.000 lawyers, only 3,000 are black-one of the smallest black ratios of any U.S. profession. Of the Government's 93 U.S. Attorneys, none is black; the most recent (Cecil Poole of San Francisco) has just been replaced by a white. Thurgood Marshall sits on the Supreme Court, but of 459 federal judges, only 22 are black. Among the country's 12,000 state and city judges, only 178 are black. As for prison administration, California is a good example: 28.6% of the state's inmates are black...
...Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, turned down yesterday an opportunity to make a landmark decision towards the legalization of marijuana...
...separate opinion, three Justices- Potter Stewart, Byron White and William Brennan-noted that because the agents' warrant authorized them to confiscate only gambling equipment, Stanley had also been the victim of an illegal search. The rest of the court, in an opinion written by Justice Thurgood Marshall, struck down Stanley's conviction for other, broader reasons. The constitutional right to "receive information and ideas," wrote Marshall, takes on an "added dimension" in the privacy of a man's home. "If the First Amendment means anything," Marshall continued, "it means that a state has no business telling...