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Supreme Court Watchers, devoted to a spectator sport even more decorous than cricket or chess-by-mail, broke out in a buzz of raised eyebrows last week. In a rare combination, liberal Justice William O. Douglas joined conservative John Marshall Harlan in a dissent against the rest of the Court. Their seven colleagues had reversed the Utah Supreme Court to reinstate a jury's award of $10,000 to injured Railroad Worker Claude Dennis. For Justice Douglas, it was the first time in many years that he had sided against such a jury award to an injured worker...
...concern itself with mere questions of fact that had been reviewed already by lower courts. All through the '30s, Justice Louis Brandeis had maintained that position. In 1957 Justice Frankfurter's impatience boiled up, and he refused to participate in any more such cases. In an angry dissent on the ice cream case and three others, he said: "The Court may or may not be 'doing justice' in the four insignificant cases it decided today; it certainly is doing injustice to the significant and important cases on the calendar and to its own role...
Like Norman Mailer, Goodman has chosen to become a personality as well as a writer. Unlike Mailer, he has not concentrated on this sideline to the detriment of his creative work. Goodman continues to produce books of dissent which have enormous social value for America...
Lionel Libson, editor of the Marxist magazine "New Horizons," claimed that the Act's purpose is to stifle dissent...
...charges against Advance showed "backward reasoning," Sohweig asserted. He said that he had always thought it the right of every American citizen to dissent from any law that he considered unjust...