Active Liberty: Interpreting a Democratic Constitution (Clarendon Law Lectures)
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
I am so impressed with the brain of this man. People in the press with little understanding of the issues often praise the intellect of Antonin Scalia. They don't know what they are talking about. Try to catch a speech by Breyer on the internet, and you will see what I mean. I saw him yesterday on C-Span in a presentation alongside Scalia, and the latter was silenced. Breyer is one of...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
... Schematics for the President's helicopter, Marine One. Financial data on Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Location of a U.S. Secret Service safe house for the First Family. Specifics of a House Ethics Committee document containing a list of ongoing investigations . But let us be realistic: Copyright claims, Creative Commons concerns, and IP violations are the molten core at the...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
... location of a safe house for the First Family, financial files belonging to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the electronic schematics to President Obama’s helicopter, and a list of 30 lawmakers currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. Read and comment. From blogs.wsj.com.
Voices (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
... location of a safe house for the First Family, financial files belonging to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the electronic schematics to President Obama’s helicopter, and a list of 30 lawmakers currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. Read the rest of this post on the original site
Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technolog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... bill’s introduction. Last year it was the financial information belonging to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer along with the names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of 2,000 others. Back in March it was the entire blueprints, engineering upgrades, and avionic schematics’ of President Obama’s helicopter, “Marine One”; More recently, it was the highly confidential “ Committee...
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Justice Stephen Breyer said that if everything that "helps a businessman succeed" is patent-eligible, it would "stop the wheels of progress" by granting exclusive rights to innovations that should be available to all. When J. Michael Jakes of Finnegan, Henderson, Farrabow, Garrett & Dunner, arguing in favor of the patent at issue, said one benefit of patenting innovations is public disclosure,...
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... have appeared in interviews on ABC’s “Primetime,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on CBS News, Justice Stephen Breyer on “Fox News Sunday,” and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” All the justices, he added, were recently interviewed on .“We cannot accept the justices’ plea for anonymity when they so regularly appear before the camera,” Specter said in his...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... a fair fee in that situation?" Roberts asked.Others, including Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer, questioned whether the free market can be counted on to police these fees.They took exception to the ruling last year from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which tossed out a suit against Harris Associates of Chicago, which serves as the adviser for the Oakmark Funds. Several...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Justice Stephen Breyer, speaking in a raspy voice because of what he said was laryngitis, suggested that justices send the case back to the lower courts to determine what kind of information a mutual fund must give to its investors. Currently, mutual funds advisers do not have to disclose to mutual fund investors what they charge independent funds for similar services.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... right there. ... It takes 30 seconds."But several others, including Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer, questioned whether the free market can be counted on to police these fees.They took exception to the ruling last year from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which tossed out a suit against Harris Associates of Chicago, the adviser for the Oakmark Funds. Several investors...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
"Supreme Court Justices debate, draw laughs at Tucson event": The Arizona Daily Star has a news update that begins, "U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer drew laughs from taking a few good-natured jibes at one another, while...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Yesterday, during a discussion with fellow Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer on how to interpret the Constitution, Justice Antonin Scalia said that he would have dissented from the unanimous 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling that struck down segregation in public schools. Because the Founding Fathers didn't write it into the Constitution in 1787! Strange thing to admit to, whatever...
Black Political Thought (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
SHOCK: During an appearance at the University of Arizona College of Law, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if he were on the court in 1954, he would have dissented in the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision that ended school segregation based on race. He appeared on stage with Justice Stephen Breyer and Scalia cautioned against "inventing new rights nobody...
Schools Matter (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
From HuffPo : In an appearance at the University of Arizona College of Law, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if he were on the court in 1954, he would have dissented in the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision that ended school segregation based on race. Appearing on stage with Justice Stephen Breyer, Scalia cautioned against "inventing new rights nobody ever...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
It was widely reported that between 2004 and 2008, Justice Stephen Breyer spoke 35,000 words from the bench. Justice Clarence Thomas uttered precisely zero. It's not shyness that's keeping him quiet. In a recent talk to students at the University of Alabama, Thomas said the justices generally know where the others stand before oral arguments and if they want to share their views, oral...
