Word: warrens
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Epidemiologist Warren Winkelstein of the University of California, Berkeley, offered some slight encouragement, suggesting that public education campaigns have slowed the spread of the infection. While the number of AIDS cases is still increasing among homosexual men in San Francisco, he said, the rate of new infections declined from an 18% increase each year between 1982 and 1984 to only about a 4% rise last year. Winkelstein attributes the drop to "safe sex" practices like using condoms. Similar declines have been recorded among gay men and intravenous drug users in Baltimore. Said Dr. Frank Polk of the Johns Hopkins School...
Dissenting were Justices Byron R. White, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, who is about to retire, and Justice William H. Rehnquist, Reagan's choice to succeed Burger as chief justice...
...When Warren Burger was made Chief Justice in 1969, there were those who saw the potential for a revolution against the activism of the Earl Warren Court. Seventeen years and five more Republican appointments later, the Burger Court has not undone the Warren legacies so much as consolidated them, affirming the earlier rulings even as it modified and diluted them. It was a court that could move boldly when it needed to. It upheld the right of the press to publish the Pentagon papers. It ruled unanimously that Richard Nixon could not withhold the damning White House tapes sought...
...Burger Court will be remembered, if it's remembered at all, as a moderate court, neither retrenching nor avant-garde," says Duke University Law Professor William Van Alstyne. Its prudence derived from the respect it, like previous courts, accorded to the precedents set by predecessors. Thus the Warren rulings became the basis upon which the Burger Court built its reasonings. It left standing the chief emblem of the Warren era's expansion of defendants' rights, the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights before interrogation. But it allowed police to dispense with Miranda warnings in emergency...
...share of judicial activism. It upheld busing as a legitimate tool for desegregating schools and overturned laws that discriminated on the basis of sex. In its most difficult advance into new territory, it ruled that women have a right to abortion. "This court has moved into areas the Warren Court never came near," says American University Law Professor Herman Schwartz. Yet when it moved, it was typically with a lumbering tread, tilting and veering with the shifts of the Justices at its center: Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, White and the late Potter Stewart. The Burger era may be remembered...