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...Michael Stein, a visiting professor of law at Harvard and self-described "left-winger" was a clerk for Samuel Alito in 1991 when the appeals court judge was considering Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. That case, involving Pennsylvania laws that placed obstacles in the way of women seeking an abortion, would eventually be addressed in a controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decision that essentially upheld Roe v. Wade. Though the Court agreed with Alito and the other two judges from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, there was one key difference. Alito argued for upholding a law requiring...
...Stein says Alito handled all the research on the case himself, which wasn't unusual for the hands-on judge, but he did not discuss the matter with his clerks or ask them for their own research, which was. "I think that was motivated by a concern to shield his clerks from any potential fallout" from the incendiary case, Stein says. "I had no idea of the result until the decision came...
...clear endorsement of the Pennsylvania law. Instead, Alito argued that the evidence before the court did not unequivocally show that the law would be "unduly burdensome" on married women and, until such evidence was presented, the court should not substitute its judgment for the legislature's. Stein says that view is typical of the way Alito views the role of the courts. There is a school of thought that "presumes that the branches are separate and presumes that Congress or the state legislature [have] done their work and knows what they're doing and why they're doing things...
...Masquerock was a bona fide respectable rock concert of student bands, featuring Susan Putnins and the Sinister Turns (covering Third Eye Blind), Plan B for the Type A’s (covering Weezer), and Dramadairy (covering Nirvana). Dozens of students sought a study break (or traipsed in from Quincy Stein Club), to hear the bands sing mostly in “costume...
...than HoCos on individual students’ lives, but HoCos are unique in their ability to appeal to the student body as a whole while fostering a sense of small-group community and comradeship in individuals who have nothing more in common than the setting of their education. House Stein Clubs, House Intramural teams, HoCo-sponsored parties, and House formals are almost uniformly successful and are accomplished with an average operating budget of about $10,000 per HoCo per semester, much of which is spent on formals, which start at around $6,000. Better-funded HoCos would undoubtedly increase...