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...damage awards are still pending in lower courts. The decision serves as confirmation of legislation passed last August when Congress amended tax law to say that such awards are taxable beginning in tax year 1997. By contrast, compensatory-damage awards remain non-taxable. Writing for the court, Justice Stephen Breyer noted that federal tax law excludes from gross income those monetary awards received "on account of personal injuries." Punitive-damages awards are "not received on account of personal injuries; hence the provision does not apply and the damages are taxable," Breyer said. Justice Antonin Scalia dissented, saying "both types...
SUPREME COURT LUNCH? LET BREYER PICK...
...Breyer $4.5 to Travel to Barcelona and Florence $7.3 million for summer teaching gig and conferences...
...Most practitioners would rather have two paragraphs of Areeda's treatise on their side than three Courts of Appeals or four Superme Court justices," wrote Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer in last month's Harvard Law Review, an issue devoted entirely to Areeda...
...Phillip Areeda was a giant of the Harvard faculty and an embodiment of its principles," Breyer said. "He was an example of intelligence, integrity, honesty, dedication to work and dedication to principle...