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...protects phone conversations from unreasonable search and seizure-just as it protects someone's home. Presumably, the Fourth Amendment protects all phone conversations equally, but when one Supreme Court Justice-Byron White-stated that the Court should not require a warrant in national security cases, only Justices Douglas and Brennan wrote arguments opposing him. Two years later-when the Justice Department was caught using evidence against Muhammed Ali that it had obtained inadvertently through its standard, if crude, practice of wiretapping foreign embassies-the Court refused to decide whether the government had acted illegally or not, saying it had never...
...protested ROTC, favored the Cuban Revolution and demonstrated against the House Un-American Activities Committee. For his efforts, Tigar was investigated by the California legislature's HUAC equivalent. California conservatives and their congressional allies were so disturbed by his activities that they pressured Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. to withdraw his offer of a clerkship for Tigar, who had graduated at the top of his law-school class. Brennan reluctantly went along...
...majority consisted of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Associate Justices Hugo L. Black, William J. Brennan Jr., Byron R. White, Thur-good Marshall and Harry A. Blackmun. Justices Potter Stewart and John M. Harlan dissented on different grounds...
...ordinances. For another, the Detroit area is currently undergoing a wave of public frustration at the inability of many parents to control the activities of their offspring. "We're constantly running into kids wandering in the streets after midnight and getting into trouble and raising hell," says Joseph Brennan, the West Bloomfield Township attorney. "Their parents don't know and don't care where they...
...Brennan said that the hospital administration expected no retaliatory action from other staff members. "The few workers I talked to personally felt we had made the correct decision," he said...