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According to the grand jury indictment, Hoffa and the late Owen Bert Brennan, Teamster vice president, got $1,008,057 from Commercial Carriers, a company bound by contract to Teamster Local 299 (president: Jimmy Hoffa). Under the scheme, Commercial Carriers set up a company named Test Fleet in Nashville, Tenn., then transferred all of its stock in the firm to the wives of Hoffa and Brennan, taking care to muddle the trail by using their maiden names, Josephine Poszywak (Mrs. Hoffa) and Alice Johnson (Mrs. Brennan). Commercial Carriers then agreed to lease Test Fleet's ten trucks...
William J. Brennan, Jr., Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, presided over the three-judge court last night which unanimously awarded the Law School's annual Ames Competition to the Casner Law Club...
...court of Brennan, Nathan L. Jacobs of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and Wade A. McCree, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan, ruled in favor of Edward C. Pinkus and M. Laurence Popofsky, counsel for Dade County, but deferred judgement on the merits of the case itself...
...Supreme Court has been badly split in recent years between a "liberal" bloc (Chief Justice Earl Warren. Hugo Black. Douglas and Brennan) and a "conservative" bloc (Frankfurter. Clark...
Without even reading the majority opinion by Justice William Brennan (for which, from a literary viewpoint, they can't be blamed), many politicians and pundits hailed the 6 to 2 decision as one that might change the U.S. political landscape overnight, and permanently entrench the Democratic Party. It was far from that. Without setting forth any guidelines for action, it simply gave federal courts the right to hear cases involving state political apportionment. As such, it was less a bombshell than a slow-burning time fuse...