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...terms of the killings themselves the most important difference was that the Jackson students, unlike those at Kent, were not engaged in any form of political activity when the Highway Patrol invaded the campus. They were not exercising any constitutional right of dissent, nor had they burned any ROTC buildings, nor, as had some of the Kent State students, had they rampaged through their campus town. The students at Jackson were, as black people have been since the beginning of their importation to this country in the 17the century, pursuing the American dream in all its mortgaged-duplex grandeur...
...that the counter-culture was going to have an impact on the nation's athletics, one of the most conservative, narrow and encrusted segments of our society." It did take a kind of Jock Jeremiah, though, to spread the word and to preach the gospel of locker-room dissent. That Scott has done. After teaching a course called "Intercollegiate Athletics and Education: A Socio-Psychological Evaluation" at the University of California at Berkeley last year, he founded his nonprofit institute to hold seminars, publish a newsletter and "help interpret what's going on in sport and make...
...vigorous 64-page dissent, Justice William Brennan argued that Harlan's view begged the crucial question: If the juries had no explicit standards on which to base their decisions, were the defendants given their guaranteed constitutional rights? Absolutely not, said Brennan. "Not once in the history of this Court, until today, have we sustained against a due process challenge such an unguided, unbridled, unreviewable exercise of naked power...
...decide whether to move to the U.S. for five years. "The Supreme Court decision was a terrible disappointment to thousands of Americans living abroad," said Mrs. Michaux. "But we hope to win the second battle in Congress." If Congress balks, what Justice William Brennan Jr. called in his bitter dissent the "downgrading [of] citizens born outside the U.S." may become a permanent reality...
Fuld, in fact, has constantly enjoyed one of judging's greatest pleasures: seeing many of his dissents later become law. In 1951, for instance, the New York court upheld the banning of an Italian film, The Miracle, on the ground that it was "sacrilegious." In dissent, Fuld scoffingly asked the court majority: "What is orthodox, what sacrilegious? Whose orthodoxy, to whom sacrilegious?" Courts have since abandoned such censorship. Other Fuld dissents ultimately have been carried into law by the U.S. Supreme Court, on issues such as free speech, obscenity and literacy tests. Most recently, he led his court...