American - Judge | September 17, 1907 - June 25, 1995
There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
Warren E. Burger
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However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
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It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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