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SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR Supreme Court Justice
...Connor $1.6 to $50 gargoyle from University $4.1 million of Wisconsin...
Price competition is an alien concept to the handful of firms that dominate the cereal industry. "Their rivalry is more akin to the choreographed grunts of televised wrestling than a cutthroat duel to the death," says John Connor, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. "The ultimate weapon, steep price cuts, is rarely used." That has kept profit margins high. Ronald Cotterill, director of the Food Marketing Policy Center at the University of Connecticut, estimates that cereal firms pocket an average of 17% of their sales as operating income, vs. 7% to 8% for the food industry...
...specific gambling issue," says TIME law correspondent Adam Cohen. The case involved a federal law that allowed Indian tribes to sue if states do not negotiate gambling permits for reservations in good faith. TIME's Cohen says the decision fits within broader agendas of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who have voted in several cases to expand states' rights. Justice John Paul Stevens, who opposed them, warned that Wednesday's action "prevents Congress from providing a federal forum for a broad range of actions against states, from . . . copyright and patent law to . . . bankruptcy, environmental...
...wives, Ward asks, "What about the idea that the residents of Sheffield Street are even more innocent, and shouldn't have to put up with the vice market of prostitution?" The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and joined by Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Ginsburg, agreed that only the nature of the crime, not the nature of the ownership, need be considered in forfeitures...