Word: scalias
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Golf may market itself as the Tiger-ized sport for all shades of fun-loving Americans, but it's still got a few cranky old geezers. Following the Supreme Court's decision allowing CASEY MARTIN to use a golf cart in PGA competition (Justices Thomas and Scalia dissented, speaking of cranky...), there was grumbling from several pro players about the unfairness of it all. "I think we ought to take them all out and play golf," said Jack Nicklaus of the Justices. "I think they'd change their minds." Martin, 28, who suffers from a rare circulatory disorder that...
...Justices Ginsberg, Souter and Stevens dissented, citing previous rulings enforcing the strict separation of church and state. Justice Breyer, who generally joins Ginsberg, Souter and Stevens in opposition to the majority?s more conservative rulings, abandoned his usual post and cast his lot with Justices Scalia, Thomas, O?Connor, Kennedy and Rehnquist...
...Darth Vader by the Democratic Party: Theodore B. Olson, Bush's recently confirmed solicitor general who successfully argued W's election case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The D.C. Appeals Court has also been a stepping stone to the Supreme Court for other conservative jurists, such as Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. If the 39- year-old Estrada made that leap several years later, Democrats realize he'd be on the High Court for a long time...
...Justices Scalia and Thomas, who banded together in dissent, argued that by granting Martin the privilege of cart use, the Court was creating "individualized rules? for talented but disabled athletes." There is considerable support for the conservative judges? stance in the golfing world; legends Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer have spoken out against allowing carts into competition, citing the ability to walk a course as an essential part of golfing...
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...