Antonin Scalia (born 1936), a conservative jurist who advocated judicial restraint, was appointed to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in 1986.American political conservatives expected to find a frie...
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Ethical, articulate, forceful, cynical, irreverent and sometimes scathing aptly describes Antonin Scalia. Esteemed to be the only son of S. Eugene and Catherine Scalia, born in Trenton, New Jer...
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Some Supreme Court cases, since Samuel Alito joined the court last year, showing a clear division between conservative and liberal justices._Free speech: Scales back protections for government work...
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The Supreme Court threw out death sentences for three Texas killers Wednesday because of problems with instructions given jurors who were deciding between life in prison and death.In the case of La...
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Two outsized personalities clashed at the Supreme Court on Wednesday and one of them, Justice Antonin Scalia, was briefly silenced by a barbed comment that left other justices laughing.Longtime Har...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for companies to challenge patents, ruling in favor of MedImmune Inc., a biotech firm that makes a childhood respiratory drug.The 8-1 decision in the dis...
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The federal judiciary will increasingly fail to attract the best-qualified lawyers if judges' pay doesn't improve, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Wednesday."If you become a federal judge...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the right of companies to sue over alleged violations of federal communications law and reinforced the regulatory authority of the Federal Communications Commiss...
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Antonin Scalia
A Biographical Report on Justice Antonin Scalia and the Effect of His Decisions
Cases showing court's ideological divide
