Word: five-to-four
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...Decision. This week, by a five-to-four decision, the minority differing only on the point about Freedom of the Press, the AP lost on all three counts. Having refused to argue whether Watson's work had actually become unsatisfactory, the AP after the NLRB hearings, had made its bed and had to lie in it. "We therefore accept as established," said the Supreme Court, "that the AP did not . . . discharge Watson because of unsatisfactory service but... for his activities in connection with the newspaper Guild...
...narrow class privilege, wholly at odds with progress and the general welfare. Third, there was considerable support of precedent for both sides in the conflict. The superior legality of one or the other was a matter of such tenuous interpretation that it might easily have merited a five-to-four decision in a modern Supreme Court. Impetuously, the twelfth century politicians sought to solve the conflict of reform and the existence of a strategically-placed individual by assassinating...
...Said he : "I can't bring myself to regard seriously the action of declaring a few Acts unconstitutional. The Dred Scott decision was reversed by the Civil War; the legal tender decision was reversed by the Court itself, and the income tax was declared unconstitutional in a five-to-four decision which was reversed by the people in an amendment to the Constitution. But the Court survives in full health and strength...
...also wonder what the Supreme Court would rule if the proceedings were brought before it. Perhaps five-to-four that a troller should not vote at all. JORGEN MORTENSEN...
...Presidential election the Supreme Court has thrown a bomb into the lap of the American people which should do much to crack the wall of adoration surrounding the Constitution. The five-to-four decision invalidating the New York minimum wage law for adult women shows that from now on "due process of law" will be as effective in preventing the individual states from enlisting social legislation as it was when Congress tried to do the same for the District of Columbia in the twenties...