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...decision drew an interesting divide through the Court; Justice Breyer, considered one of the Court's most liberal members, does not usually side with conservative stalwarts Thomas or Scalia, but on this occasion he did, joined also by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Kennedy. Breyer has sided with the conservative side on drug and seizure cases before...
...girls began rifling through the legislation on Weld’s desk. Byrnes sent them back to his apartment, fell asleep on the State House lawn for an hour and then wrote a speech in 30 minutes that Weld delivered in front of current Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. “It was less of an incident than a way of life,” Byrnes says of the jaunt...
Former Marshall scholars include United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Duke University president and former Wellesley College president Nannerl Keohane and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman of The New York Times...
...decision ensures that deportable aliens are not held in prisons after their sentences are fulfilled. "We believe that an alien's liberty interest is, at the least, strong enough to raise a serious question as to whether? the Constitution permits detention that is indefinite and potentially permanent," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court. Justice Sandra Day O?Connor joined the Court's liberal bloc (Justices Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer and Souter) in the majority...
...Court ruled 7-2, with Justices Stevens and Breyer dissenting, that freelance writers who sell their work to print media retain the right to decide if and when their articles are reprinted electronically. The decision, which at first blush appears a financial windfall for a growing population of freelancers, could wind up hurting the content of online research databases. Some media analysts are already predicting publishing companies may simply drop online content created by freelancers, rather than get involved in the complexities of electronic rights. If a writer refuses to grant electronic rights to a story, or a media company...