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...separate concurring opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia noted that it was not the court's duty to decide whether the state law promoted shareholder welfare. As he put it, "A law can be both economic folly and constitutional." In fact, Scalia added, the law might protect incumbent management...
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Byron R. White, Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia joined Powell's opinion...
...Arline's rights had been violated. Writing for the majority, Justice William Brennan held that Congress had passed the law "to ensure that handicapped individuals are not denied jobs or other benefits because of the prejudiced attitudes or the ignorance of others." In a dissent that was joined by Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice William Rehnquist said neither the language of the law nor the record of congressional discussion preceding its passage provided evidence that contagiousness was intended to fall within its definition of handicap. The majority of the Justices were convinced, however, that in amendments to the law the legislators...
...majority coalition cut across ideological lines. Sandra Day O'Connor, a Reagan appointee and the court's only woman, joined the liberal Marshall in his opinion, as did William Brennan, Harry Blackmun and (with a minor exception) John Paul Stevens. Antonin Scalia, a philosophical conservative who is Reagan's only other appointee to the bench, wrote a separate opinion that agreed with the outcome but on narrower grounds...
...Everybody was in a jolly mood." Thus a court insider described the atmosphere as the Rehnquist Court went to work in closed session for the first time last week. With William Rehnquist newly sworn as its Chief and Antonin Scalia the newest Associate Justice, the reassembled U.S. Supreme Court began going through the summer's accumulation of new cases. The transition has proceeded smoothly. Former Chief Justice Warren Burger moved out of his chambers early so they could be repainted, and most of Rehnquist's pictures and effects are now tidily in place. Burger retains a smaller office, for retired...