Word: antonin
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...Althought businesses around the country hailed today's decision as a victory, the ruling did not contain any new legal guidelines for future punitive damages caps. The Court only made clear that the awards in this case were excessive and "transcended the constitutional limit". Among the dissenting judges, Antonin Scalia wrote for himself and Clarence Thomas that the ruling is "an unjustified incursion into the province of state governments." Ruth Bader Ginsburg supported that view in a seperate dissent: "The court, I am convinced, unnecessarily and unwisely ventures into territory within the states' domain, and does so in the face...
...fools for Christ's sake...We must pray for the courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world." --Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a Baptist prayer breakfast in Mississippi...
...Ward asks, "What about the idea that the residents of Sheffield Street are even more innocent, and shouldn't have to put up with the vice market of prostitution?" The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and joined by Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Ginsburg, agreed that only the nature of the crime, not the nature of the ownership, need be considered in forfeitures...
...think he's going to be such an intellectual force that he could be kind of a Scalia on the court," Weld said in news reports, referring to the conservative Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia...
...feel that the Governor was very politically disingenuous regarding the nomination," Lee said. "Before the nomination he said nothing about Fried's political leanings, and then after the confirmation, he identified Fried as another Antonin Scalia...