Word: souter
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...bucks; it finished a sturdy fifth. DreamWorks' 3D comedy has been in release two weeks longer than any other film in the top 10, lost more theaters this weekend, yet suffered the lowest drop in attendance of all the holdovers. Even the Supreme Court, with or without David Souter, would be unanimous in finding for DreamWorks in the case of Monsters v. Aliens v. Every Other Movie That Came Out Early This Year...
...first year Souter sided with those four on some important criminal justice cases, including one in which he ruled that the introduction at trial of a coerced confession was a "harmless error" that shouldn't automatically result in the overturning of a guilty verdict on appeal. But the next year he outraged anti-abortion forces in a pivotal case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Souter joined with Kennedy and O'Connor in a joint opinion that upheld the "essential holding" of Roe v. Wade. Though in the same decision the three justices approved most provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control...
...That same year, in Lee v. Weisman, Souter joined the 5-4 majority that disallowed a prayer at a public high school graduation. And as the '90s wore on and Bill Clinton's court nominees Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer came on board, Souter was increasingly inclined to join with them and John Paul Stevens to form the court's liberal wing...
...Souter was one of the four dissenters in Bush v. Gore, the case that allowed Florida to shut down the recount in that year's presidential election. Three years later he joined the six-vote majority that struck down laws forbidding gay sex. Two years after that he upheld the right of government to seize private property to encourage economic development...
...Local activists were so angry about that one that they put an initiative on the ballot in Souter's hometown to seize his home and replace it with an inn to be called the Lost Liberty Hotel. It was voted down, so the old farmhouse will still be there waiting for him when Souter leaves Washington - still a loner, still a mystery in some ways, but a man we know much more about now than we did when he first arrived...