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OCTOBER 2002 The Supreme Court rules 9 to 0 that William Ginsburg is not entitled to be paid for his "disastrous representation" of Monica. In a scathing opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia writes, "One only regrets that this man was not entrusted with the defense of O.J. Simpson." Ginsburg vows to appeal the ruling until it is pointed out to him that you cannot appeal a Supreme Court ruling...
...pair of rulings came from a comparatively unified court -- 7 to 2 -- and shows that even conservatives on the bench are staying strong on sexual harassment, says Cohen. For the record, the dissenters were Justices Antonin Scalia and -- who else? -- Clarence Thomas...
Just last year, the Institute of Politics' (IOP) Summer In Washington Program (SIWP) brought Harvard undergrads working in D.C. to the offices of beltway bigwigs like Supreme Court Justice Antonin G. Scalia, politico James Carville and Deputy Chief of Staff Sylvia Matthews for a series of informal gatherings and speeches...
...Scalia] was only willing to speak to Harvard students, since he was a Harvard [Law] grad," McLain said...
Nonetheless, even as such conservative jurists as Wright and Scalia have limited what counts as sexual harassment, they and their liberal counterparts have consistently broadened the grounds on which Americans can sue for it. Every time the Supreme Court has ruled on workplace sexual harassment, it has broadened the scope of "standing" for those claims: from the simple, easily understood quid pro quo (if Clinton had said, "Kiss it, or you're fired," for example) to the more convoluted cases like those involving a "hostile work environment." Just last month the Supreme Court, usually hostile to gay rights, even allowed...