Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief Justice Earl Warren is reported to have asked, "Who can define the meaning of un-American?" With two words I can answer: Earl Warren...
...there any ideal way we can legally get rid of Chief Justice Warren...
Chief Justice Earl Warren concurred in the result of the majority opinion, but fretted lest Brennan's "broad language" might "eventually be applied to the arts and sciences and freedom of communication generally." Justice William Douglas (joined by Justice Hugo Black) dissented, arguing that the majority test of obscenity made for "community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where, in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win." Wrote Douglas: "I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have...
...differed from the criminal issues in the Roth and Alberts cases). Justice Brennan dissented because the New York injunctive process provides no trial by jury. Dissenting Justice Douglas (with Black) wrote bitterly: "Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter." Wrote dissenting Chief Justice Warren...
Straight Battle. Coke is still constantly cited by lawyers and judges on both sides of the Atlantic, e.g., in Chief Justice Earl Warren's majority opinion on the Watkins case (TIME, July i). The complexities and oddities of Coke's Commentary upon Littleton helped make a lawyer of Patrick Henry in six weeks, drove Daniel Webster to "despair," and got from Thomas Jefferson the tribute of being the law's "universal elementary book...