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After becoming an HLS assistant professor in 1994, Jolls took two years off to work as a law clerk for both Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, then for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia...
...this case. Gail Atwater, who was returning from a soccer practice with her two young children, claimed Texas police violated her Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure when they arrested her in 1997 after noticing that none of the trio was wearing a seat belt. Justices Souter, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy and Rehnquist ruled against Atwater, stating that while "the arrest and booking were inconvenient to Atwater, they were not so extraordinary as to violate the Fourth Amendment." Interestingly, everyone on the Court agreed with Atwater and her lawyer that the policeman in this situation went overboard - cuffing...
...bronchitis each year and about 8,300 premature deaths, was proposed by Bill Clinton. Another set of Clinton's air-pollution regulations, stalled for years by lawsuits, finally won unanimous support last week from the U.S. Supreme Court. In a strong opinion from a surprising source, conservative Antonin Scalia, the court backed the EPA's authority to set tough new limits on the amount of ozone and fine particles (better known as soot) spewed out by trucks and power plants. These pollutants ravage the lungs and are implicated in asthma and cardiovascular disease. The high court rejected arguments...
...Clean Air Act, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the Court's strongly worded opinion, "unambiguously bars cost considerations" from the establishment of air standards, "and thus ends the matter for us as well as the EPA." The opinion, as it goes on, leaves little doubt as to the intensity of the Court's convictions. Justices Breyer, Stevens, Souter and Thomas each concurred with the opinion, adding their own sharp language...
...Senate Democrats voting no, was cast by both sides as a warm-up for the war over the next high court opening, a slot with lifetime tenure. The Senate's 50-50 split adds still more flammability. Bush continues to say he most admires ultraconservative Justices like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, but will his resolve melt when he has to face the fire...