Antonin Scalia
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Antonin Scalia, Law Schools, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Update: Fordham's Dossier on Justice Scalia
For those of you just tuning in, we have a little bit of a back and forth going on between Fordham Law School and One First Street. Last week, we wrote about What Fordham Knows About Justice Scalia. Professor Joel Reidenberg, an information privacy law professor at Fordham, had his class compile a 15-page dossier […] -
Antonin Scalia, Law Schools, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Justice Scalia Responds to Fordham Privacy Invasion!
Last week, we wrote about the Fordham law professor who assigned his information privacy law class to compile a dossier on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The professor had chosen Scalia as the target for privacy invasion because of the Justice’s remarks at a January conference organized by the Institute of American and Talmudic Law. […] - Sponsored
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Antonin Scalia, Law Schools, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
What Fordham Knows About Justice Scalia
Back in January, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was a speaker at the Institute of American and Talmudic Law’s midwinter conference on privacy issues. Sitting in the New York office of Weil Gotshal, Scalia told attendees that privacy was not that important to him. From the Associated Press (available cached only): Discussions of privacy rights […]
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Andrew Cuomo, Antonin Scalia, Bernie Madoff, Morning Docket, Pornography, Sexual Harassment, Wal-Mart
Morning Docket 3.24.09
* United Airlines settled a suit filed by a former pilot, who resigned after repeatedly finding porn in hidden places in her cockpit, including underneath a cap on a safety device called a “stick shaker” (no pun intended). Click to see United’s ridiculous effort to dismiss. [The Seattle Times] * Attorney General Andrew Cuomo convinced […]
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Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Books, Civil Rights, Google / Search Engines, Morning Docket, William Rehnquist
Morning Docket 11.18.08
* Change you can believe in? It looks like Obama has recruited a few “washington insiders”: 8 of the 10 top lawyers he has hired for his transition team are veterans of the Clinton administration. [Bloomberg.com] * After his hunt yesterday, Justice Antonin Scalia told a room full of big-time Texas lawyers that he disagreed […]
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Antonin Scalia, Baseball, Eavesdropping / Wiretapping, Larry Craig, Morning Docket, Politics, Sports, Torture
Morning Docket: 02.14.08
* House Democrats oppose Senate spy bill’s telecom immunity. [Washington Post] * Justice Scalia approves of “so-called torture” under some circumstances. [MSNBC] * Just a few months later, Senate committee gets around to admonishing Sen. Craig. [CNN] * Clemens and McNamee go head to head before Congress. [ESPN] * City’s scantily clad cowboy sues candy-coated […]
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Antonin Scalia, Books, Celebrities, Clarence Thomas, Eyes of the Law, Pictures
The Eyes of the Law: Justice Scalia at Georgetown
Our latest legal celebrity sighting: Justice Antonin Scalia, spotted at Georgetown University Law Center. He is believed to have been at GULC to speak to a con law class. Of the current justices on the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia clearly inspires the greatest amount of fanatical devotion. How many other justices have their own fansite? […] -
Antonin Scalia, Hotties, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: OT 2008 (Update #8)
In terms of feeding his current crop of clerks to the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Judge Michael Boudin (1st Cir.) is batting 1.000. We received this tip from multiple sources, but here’s the most interesting iteration: Moshe Spinowitz (HLS ’06/Boudin) has been hired by Justice Scalia for October 2008. Spinowitz, or Spino, as he’s known, […] - Sponsored
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Antonin Scalia, Conferences / Symposia, Fabulosity, Federalist Society, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Parties, Pictures, Samuel Alito
More About the Fabulous Fed Soc Fête
At the Federalist Society festivities: Ryan Bounds, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy; Deputy Associate Attorney General John O’Quinn; and Susanna Dokupil, Assistant Solicitor General for the Office of the Attorney General of Texas. Last week, the Federalist Society celebrated its 25th anniversary, with a black-tie gala at Union Station. The […] -
Antonin Scalia, Arlen Specter, Books, Clarence Thomas, David Souter, Dick Cheney, Fabulosity, John Roberts, Michael Chertoff, Parties, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, Television
Liveblogging the Clarence Thomas Book Party
Welcome. If you’re at home, tune in to C-SPAN, which is rebroadcasting the recent book party for Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Thomas’s eagerly anticipated memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, is now in bookstores — and topping the bestseller charts (to the relief of his publisher, HarperCollins, which reportedly paid him a $1.5 million advance). 7:05: The […] -
Antonin Scalia, Brett Kavanaugh, Contests, Reader Polls, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: July's Couple of the Month
LEWW offers a seven-gun salute to newlyweds Zina Gelman and John Bash III, who scored a convincing victory in our July Couple of the Month vote. Zina and John — currently public servants in the chambers of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Antonin Scalia, respectively — finished 16.7 percentage points ahead of the surprising second-place […] -
Antonin Scalia, Harvard, Harvard Law Review, John Bash, New York Times, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 7.8.07: Seven on Earth
We’re posting this on Friday the 13th — hardly anyone’s lucky day. But last Saturday was 7-7-07, and couples all over the world rushed to the altar (and the gambling tables) to take advantage of the auspicious date. And sevens weren’t the only thing we saw multiples of in the NYT weddings section. We’ve got […] -
Antonin Scalia, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential
SCOTUS Forecast: Tom Goldstein Picks the Next Great Liberal Justices
Over at SCOTUSblog, Tom Goldstein has a long post on who a Democratic president might nominate to fill the Supreme Court vacancies that would surely open up if the GOP exits the White House in 2008. Goldstein’s criteria are fairly straightforward: ideology, experience, demographics, and age (he excluded anyone born before 1952). Some of the […]
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Antonin Scalia, Benchslaps, Federal Judges, John Roberts, Rudeness, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The Best in Benchslappery: A Compendium for OT 2006
Late last week, Bill Mears of CNN wrote a helpful round-up of the best benchslaps from the Supreme Court’s most recent Term. It starts off: One Supreme Court justice says his fellow conservatives are “too dismissive” of government efforts to ensure racial diversity in schools. Another more liberal member says those on the right did […] -
Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens, Merrick Garland, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: OT 2008 (Update #1)
The Supreme Court hasn’t yet finished up for October Term 2006 (which should end tomorrow). The law clerks for October Term 2007 will start arriving next month. But many of them have already started hiring clerks for October Term 2008. We reported on some of those hires back in this post. And now we have […] -
Antonin Scalia, Benchslaps, SCOTUS
Scalia Gets Snarky Over Scienter Standard
At issue in the SCOTUS’s decision today in Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd.[SCOTUSblogvia How Appealing] was the definition of the term “strong inference”, and therefore what the standard is for determining whether a plaintiff has met the pleading requirements as to scienter in a securities fraud case. Some mildly saucy benchslaps insued. […] -
Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: October Term 2008
We’ve received some news about Supreme Court law clerk hiring for October Term 2008 (not the upcoming Term, but the one after that): 1. We had heard, through the grapevine, that Justice Antonin Scalia had started his OT 2008 interviewing earlier than usual. And it appears to have yielded at least one hire: Yaakov Roth […] -
Ann Banaszewski, Antonin Scalia, Cars, Celebrities, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Lindsay Lohan
Fathers and Daughters and Celebrity DUIs
Time for some celebrity DWI news. It’s like your morning coffee: you can’t get your day started without it. First, troubled underage starlet Lindsay Lohan (near right) — who is back in rehab, after a drunk driving arrest over the Memorial Day weekend — allegedly suffers from OxyContin addiction, according to her estranged dad, Michael […] -
8th Circuit, Antonin Scalia, Benchslaps, Death Penalty, Habeas Corpus, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Benchslap of the Day: Justice Scalia's Dissent in Roper
Okay, make that yesterday. A reader email drew our attention to the saucy conclusion of Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in Roper v. Weaver: The greatest harm is that done to AEDPA, since dismissing the writ of certiorari leaves the Eighth Circuit’s grossly erroneous precedent on the books. (That precedent, by the way, cannot be explained […] -
Antonin Scalia, Cars, John Paul Stevens, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Videos
Online Video Clips: Not Just for Porn Anymore
An astute observation about today’s opinion in Scott v. Harris, from Howard Bashman: Here’s a first — A U.S. Supreme Court decision issued today has its own accompanying video: Talk about multimedia rulings! The Court’s opinion today in Scott v. Harris, No. 05-1631 — a dispute about the lawfulness of a high-speed police chase captured […]