* 1906 – William J. Brennan, American Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1997 )

* William J. Brennan, 1956

* William Brennan

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. asserted that " if there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.

Justice Arthur Goldberg ( joined by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William Brennan ) expressed this view in a concurring opinion in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut ( 1965 ):

" In dissent, Justice William Brennan argued that the need to preserve military discipline should not protect the government from liability and punishment for serious violations of constitutional rights:

On June 19, 1987 the Supreme Court, in a seven to two majority opinion written by Justice William J. Brennan, ruled that the Act constituted an unconstitutional infringement on the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, based on the three-pronged Lemon test, which is:

William J. Brennan, Jr., a liberal Democrat appointed by Eisenhower in 1956, was the intellectual leader of the activist faction that included Black and Douglas.

Seventy years later, when the U. S. Supreme Court banned prayer from the public schools in 1963, the Edgerton Bible Case was one of the precedents cited by Justice William Brennan.

Famous participants include Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, activist and first lady Michelle Obama, and professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence Tribe.

Past Supreme Court justices from Harvard Law School include David Souter, Harry Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, Lewis Powell ( LLM ), and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., among others.

It was the first case that provided an opportunity to overturn Roe since the two liberal Justices, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, were replaced with the Bush-appointed Justices David Souter and Clarence Thomas.

In consideration of Miller in May and June 1972, Burger pushed successfully for a looser definition of " obscenity " which would allow local prosecutions, while Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., who by now also believed the Roth and Memoirs tests should be abandoned, led the charge for protecting all " obscenity " unless distributed to minors or exposed offensively to unconsenting adults.

Appointed by President George H. W. Bush to fill the seat vacated by William J. Brennan, Jr., Souter was the only Justice during his time on the Court with extensive prior court experience outside of a federal appeals court, having served as a prosecutor, a state's attorney general, and as a judge on state trial and appellate courts.

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, and Lewis Powell.

The appeal was heard by the High Court between 11 and 13 June 1996 with Gerard Brennan, Daryl Dawson, John Toohey, Mary Gaudron, Michael McHugh, William Gummow and Michael Kirby presiding.

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote separately to explain that the publication of the documents did not qualify as one of the three exceptions to the freedom of expression established in Near v. Minnesota ( 1931 ).

He was instrumental in getting William Brennan appointed to the Supreme Court in 1956, but would later regret the decision.

The Court split 6 to 2 in ruling that Baker's case was justiciable, producing, in addition to the opinion of the Court by Justice William J. Brennan, three concurring opinions and two dissenting opinions.

He was succeeded by William J. Brennan, Jr.

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote the opinion for a unanimous court, joined by Justices William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and Lewis F. Powell.

The general principles the United States Supreme Court relied on to decide whether or not a particular punishment was cruel and unusual were determined by Justice William Brennan.

William Brennan may refer to:

* 1908 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American novelist ( d. 2000 )

* Swearingen Jr., William Scott Environmental City: People, Place, and the Meaning of Modern Austin ( University of Texas Press ; 2010 ) 273 pages ; traces the history of environmentalism in the Texas capital, which has been part of a larger effort to preserve Austin's quality of life and sense of place.

His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Bill was born.

* William E. Gwatkin, Jr., ' Some Reflections on the Battle of Pharsalus ', Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol.

However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund derived from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenues.

* Fanning, William Jr.

Then, in a virtually unprecedented move, the Court invited William T. Coleman, Jr. to argue the government's position in an amicus curiae brief, thus ensuring that the prosecution's position would be the one the Court wished to hear.

Charles William " Bill " Mumy, Jr. (; born February 1, 1954 ) is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community.

Mumy, Jr., Charles William ( full name ); Barnes, Art ( stage name )

Voice actors for the special included Barbara Harris, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Jack Gilford and Will Jordan.

* 2003 – William V. Roth, Jr., American politician ( b. 1921 )

This handbook of grammatical and stylistic guidance for writers of American English had been written and published in 1918 by William Strunk, Jr., one of White's professors at Cornell.

* The Elements of Style ( with William Strunk, Jr .) ( 1959, republished 1972, 1979, 1999, 2005 )

* 1940 – William H. Turner, Jr. American horse trainer

William Strunk, Jr., et al.

* Philips, William D., Jr., and Carla Rahn Phillips.

Bogart resumed his friendship with boyhood pal Bill Brady, Jr. whose father had show business connections, and eventually Bogart got an office job working for William A. Brady Sr .' s new company World Films.

* William Randolph Hearst III, son of 2nd son William Randolph Hearst, Jr.

* 1930 – William Bernard Ziff, Jr., American publisher ( d. 2006 )

* 1839 – William H. Seward, Jr., American general ( d. 1920 )

* 1869 – William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator ( d. 1946 )

* 2010 – William H. Ginn Jr., American Air Force officer ( b. 1928 )

* 1908 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate ( d. 1993 )

* 1921 – William V. Roth, Jr., American politician ( d. 2003 )