The Law: Clearing the Calendar

Warren Burger's Supreme Court is winding up its current term with a flourish. Driving to clear the court calendar by July 8, when they face the momentous confrontation between the President and the Watergate prosecutors, the Justices last week handed down rulings in half a dozen important cases. All of them involved the First Amendment right of free expression. The nation's press may well be most deeply affected by the Tornillo decision sharply limiting citizens' right of reply to critical editorials (see cover story page 68).

The other decisions:

1. BACK TO PORNOGRAPHY. It...

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