Showing posts with label Justice Scalia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Justice Scalia. Show all posts
Monday, November 28, 2011

Justice Scalia called "friend" of criminal defendants...

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... by the LA Times . So there, Rumpole . Check it out: Justice Antonin Scalia , the Supreme Court's most outspoken and combative cons...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

"Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat."

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Says Justice Scalia in today's 7-2 opinion in California v. Entertainment Merchants Association , striking down a California law that re...
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Thursday, June 09, 2011

Justice Scalia calls other justices insane

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I just love it. From his dissent today in Sykes v. United States : JUSTICE SCALIA, dissenting. As the Court's opinion acknowledges, thi...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Justice Scalia gets ticket in car accident

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Apparently he was following a little too closely to the car in front of him: The accident happened just before 9 a.m. on what was to be a ...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

"Why don’t we just abolish the exclusionary rule? That would be really simple. Whatever evidence tends to prove the truth comes in.”

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Uh-oh. That was Justice Scalia this morning in Davis v. United States: JUSTICE SCALIA: Actually, why don't we just abolish the exclusion...
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Monday, February 28, 2011

Justice Scalia issues strong dissent in favor of criminal defendant

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Here is his intro in Michigan v. Bryant : Today’s tale—a story of five officers conducting suc cessive examinations of a dying man with the...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Justice Scalia complains of an “Alfred Hitchcock line of…jurisprudence.”

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A unanimous Supreme Court (per Alito ) in NASA v. Nelson upheld the government's right to conduct background checks on employees. Justic...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Unlike Justice Breyer, Justice Scalia is a techie

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I posted last week about how Justice Breyer didn't really understand text messaging or Facebook . Well, Justice Scalia is different -...
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

"Some of the Grimm’s fairy tales are quite grim." -- Justice Scalia during oral argument yesterday

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So were some of those election results... Here's the NY Times article on the violent video game argument in the Supreme Court: The law w...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

I'm back

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Thanks to my guest bloggers -- SFL , Rumpole , and Rick B . Now back to work.... I hope everyone enjoys the last good week of traffic becau...
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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Beat LA (and Rumpole)

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Running around like crazy the last few days, and then I see this straw man put up and knocked down by Rumpole on his blog . I will respon...
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

More on Scalia vs. Alito

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I've often said that Justice Scalia is the most criminal-defense friendly Justice, while Justice Alito is the least. More support for ...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Rothstein racked up 20 Million AMEX points

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Damn.... In other news, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts -- the confrontation case from last term that said lab reports were subject to Crawfo...
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Friday, November 06, 2009

Do as I say, not as I do

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From the oral arguments on Tuesday of this week in the Supreme Court: MR. BARNHOUSE : The lawsuit would be -- the lawsuit itself would be p...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Scalia likes My Cousin Vinny and Marisa Tomei

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Here's a piece of the article (HT: ABL): Before signing copies of his book, Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, (which came ...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Why Professor Dershowitz Rocks

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The challenge . This time to Scalia on his dissent, blogged about a couple of days ago by one of our favorite readers : I hereby challenge J...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

They write letters

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(Okay, so we stole the title from our brother blogger, South Florida Lawyer). While everyone is talking about Ricci and Madoff , the story...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

SCALIA.

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Rumpole , check out the 2 criminal law opinions this morning. Justice Scalia wrote a 5-4 opinion ( Melendez- Diaz v. Massachusetts ) in fa...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Justice Scalia and Rumpole

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Rumpole is getting all hot and bothered by Justice Scalia's recent decision in Montejo v. Louisiana , overruling Michigan v. Jackson....
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A Hispanic judge is nominated to the Court...

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...but alas not one from Florida . Sonia Sotomayor is the pick.... No real surprise here. I was rooting for Harvard (Elena Kagan) instead o...
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