Word: breyers
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...Lopez's lawyer that the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 is unconstitutional, rejecting the government's argument that guns in schools contribute to violence, which in turn hampers students' learning and hurts the economy by making students less productive. The court was deeply divided, however. Justice Stephen Breyer, who called the majority ruling "extraordinary," took the unusual position of reading from the bench a portion of his dissent, which argued that "gun-related violence in and around schools is a commercial, as well as a human problem...
...think he would be very much in the mold of Justice Breyer, a centrist civil libertarian," Dershowitz said. "I think he'd be a tremendous intellectual addition to the court...
Companies can get trademark protections for distinctive colors that distinguish their brands from others, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled today. Justice Steven Breyer, who wrote the ruling, noted trademarks have been granted for the shape of Coca-Cola bottles, the scent of sewing thread and NBC's three-chime jingle. "If a shape, a sound and a fragrance can act as symbols, why, one might ask, can a color not do the same?" he wrote. The decision reversed a lower court's denial of a trademark for green-gold dry-cleaning press pads made by a Chicago firm. Columbia...
Introducing his former student and colleague, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Charles Fried called Breyer "not just another smart Harvard Law School professor...
...Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 said Breyer epitomizes the type of person that makes Cambridge a great city, namely, an individual who spends only a part of his life in Cambridge but remains connected to the city forever...