Word: breyers
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Last year, after making its way through the nation's appeals courts, the argument over FDA regulation of tobacco landed in the Supreme Court. Tuesday's ruling, which was accompanied by Stephen Breyer's scathing dissent, pushes tobacco back into congressional hands. Anti-smoking forces worry that the Court's decision could weaken the tobacco industry's newfound resolve to voluntarily enhance warning labels on cigarettes and step up efforts to keep minors from smoking. But while Tuesday's ruling is certainly a victory for tobacco - sending Philip Morris's stock through the roof - the triumph could be short-lived...
...they do so from a four-story-high, block-square trading room in London. These underwriters form syndicates that are in turn backed by Names--investors who range from British notable Camilla Parker Bowles to U.S. business tycoons like Lufkin and Schwab, columnist Robert Novak, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and smaller fry like Evans. Names are required to risk their entire personal wealth when they back Lloyd's policies in exchange for the right to a slice of underwriting profits. Atop the whole shebang sits the Council of Lloyd's, a ruling body of 18 exchange members who regulate...
...indication of the Court's attitude toward the death penalty. "It's always hard to read rejections like this," says Cohen. "We can never know the reasons they choose not to hear a case." On the other hand, he notes, "the most liberal Justices - Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg and Breyer - voted to hear the case, and that may be an indication that this issue has divided the Court along very definitive lines." Also at issue: whether one or more Justices may view electrocution as cruel and unusual punishment but still support the death penalty in another form, such as lethal injection...