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20080213
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Antonin
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 Dick
Cheney -  Torture
-  Terrorism
-  Intelligence
-  Politics
-  History
- Guantanamo
-  Cuba
-  US
-  Military
- Prisoners
- Human
Rights -  Switzerland
- "Scalia
Weighs in Again on Controversy." ... "[Republican
President Ronald Reagan appointed Supreme Court] Justice Antonin Scalia's
statement that inflicting pain on a terrorism suspect to elicit critical
information could be constitutional was not the first - or second or even
third - time he has commented on a legal controversy that ultimately could
be settled by the Supreme Court." ... "If past practice is any guide, Scalia
won't let his remarks or his critics' complaints stop him from taking part
in the court's work." ... "In 2006, a few weeks before the court heard
arguments over the rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Scalia
told an audience in Switzerland that the Constitution doesn't protect foreigners
who are held there." ... ""War is war, and it has never been the case that
when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your
civil courts. Give me a break," Scalia said." ... "He ignored a request
from five retired generals to withdraw from the case and dissented from
a ruling in favor of the detainees. Two years earlier, Scalia also dissented
in the court's first decision extending some legal rights to the Guantanamo
prisoners." ... "Scalia, 71, rebuffed calls in 2004 to step aside from
a dispute involving [Republican] Vice President Dick Cheney when it was
disclosed Scalia accompanied Cheney on a hunting trip while the court was
considering the case." -By Mark Sherman
-AssociatedPress
20080212
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Antonin
Scalia - Torture
- Terrorism
- Intelligence
- Politics
- Los
Angeles -
 California
- US
-  Britain
- "US
Judge Scalia on 'So-Called Torture'." ... "[Republican
President Ronald Reagan appointed] Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
said that aggressive interrogation could be appropriate to learn where
a bomb was hidden shortly before it was set to explode or to discover the
plans or whereabouts of a terrorist group." ... ""It seems to me you have
to say, as unlikely as that is, it would be absurd to say you couldn't,
I don't know, stick something under the fingernail, smack him in the face.
It would be absurd to say you couldn't do that," Scalia told British Broadcasting
Radio Corp." ... ""I suppose it's the same thing about so-called torture,"
he said in the interview. "Is it really so easy to determine that smacking
someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about
to blow up Los Angeles [California] is prohibited by the Constitution?""
... ""Is it obvious, that what can't be done for punishment can't be done
to exact information that is crucial to the society? I think it's not at
all an easy question, to tell you the truth."" ... "Scalia, a judicial
icon among American conservatives, an acerbic wit and often abrasive personality,
said Europeans had no business "smugly" decrying those techniques as torture."
-By Raphael G. Satter
-AP via -ChicagoTribune
20070529
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 Worker
-  Women
-  Race
-  Alabama
-  Business
- Alito
- Roberts
- Scalia
- Kennedy
- "Worker
Job-Bias Claims Limited by U.S. Supreme Court (Update4)."
... "Workers can't sue under a federal job- bias law to claim they are
underpaid because of gender or race discrimination that occurred years
earlier, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a victory for employers."
... "The justices, voting 5-4, rejected a $360,000 award to Lilly Ledbetter,
an Alabama Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. worker who said that almost two
decades of discrimination meant her salary was 15 to 40 percent lower than
what her male counterparts earned." ... "The 1964 Civil Rights Act typically
gives workers 180 days from the time of the alleged discrimination to file
a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The question
was whether workers can claim that their most recent paychecks are affected
by bias that took place outside the 180-day window." ... "``Current effects
alone cannot breathe life into prior, uncharged discrimination,'' Justice
Samuel Alito wrote for the majority. ``Ledbetter should have filed an EEOC
charge within 180 days after each allegedly discriminatory pay decision
was made and communicated to her.''" ... "Chief Justice John Roberts and
Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas joined Alito's
opinion. Lower courts were divided on the issue." ... "Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, the court's only woman, took the unusual step of reading a summary
of her dissent from the bench as she sat next to Alito. She said the majority
``does not comprehend, or is indifferent to, the insidious way in which
women can be victims of pay discrimination.'' " -By
Greg Stohr -Bloomberg
20070418
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Women's
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 Health
-  Science
- Abortion
- Politics
- Roberts
- Alito
- Kennedy
- Scalia
- "`Partial
Birth' Abortion Ban Upheld by Top U.S. Court (Update2)."
... "A divided U.S. Supreme Court upheld a nationwide ban on ``partial
birth'' abortion, marking a shift on the issue and underscoring the impact
of President George W. Bush's two high court appointments." ... "The justices,
voting 5-4, said the 2003 law is constitutional even though there is no
exception for cases posing a risk to the mother's health. The court also
rejected claims that the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act is so vaguely worded
it would force doctors to forgo a commonly used, constitutionally protected
abortion technique for fear of prosecution." ... "Bush's appointees, Chief
Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, helped turn the tide in
today's case, joining Kennedy and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence
Thomas." ... "In dissent, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the ruling
``alarming'' and took the unusual step of reading a summary of her opinion
from the bench. She pointed to the conclusion of the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists that the disputed procedure was proper
in some cases." ... "``And, for the first time since Roe, the court blesses
a prohibition with no exception safeguarding a woman's health,'' Ginsburg
wrote. Justices Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens and David Souter joined
Ginsburg's dissent." -By Greg Stohr
-Bloomberg
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Homes - "Court Limits Protection Against Improper Entry." ... "Evidence found by police officers who enter a home to execute a search warrant without first following the requirement to "knock and announce" can be used at trial despite that constitutional violation, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday." ... "The 5-to-4 decision left uncertain the value of the "knock-and-announce" rule, which dates to 13th-century England as protection against illegal entry by the police into private homes." ... "Justice Antonin Scalia, in the majority opinion, said that people subject to an improper police entry remained free to go to court and bring a civil rights suit against the police." ... "But Justice Stephen G. Breyer, writing for the dissenters, said the ruling "weakens, perhaps destroys, much of the practical value of the Constitution's knock-and-announce protection." He said the majority's reasoning boiled down to: "The requirement is fine, indeed, a serious matter, just don't enforce it."" ... "In addition to Justice Alito, those who joined the majority opinion by Justice Scalia were Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence Thomas and Anthony M. Kennedy. Justice Breyer's dissenting opinion was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg" -By Linda Greenhouse -NYTimes
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Massachusetts - "Photographer: Herald got it right." ... "Amid a growing national controversy about the gesture U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made Sunday at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross [Boston, Massachusettes], the freelance photographer who captured the moment has come forward with the picture." ... "“It’s inaccurate and deceptive of him to say there was no vulgarity in the moment,” said Peter Smith, the Boston University assistant photojournalism professor who made the shot." ... "Smith was working as a freelance photographer for the Boston archdiocese’s weekly newspaper at a special Mass for lawyers Sunday when a Herald reporter asked the justice how he responds to critics who might question his impartiality as a judge given his public worship." ... "“The judge paused for a second, then looked directly into my lens and said, ‘To my critics, I say, ‘Vaffanculo,’ ” punctuating the comment by flicking his right hand out from under his chin, Smith said." ... "The Italian phrase means “(expletive) you.”" (1, 2) -By Marie Szaniszlo -BostonHerald.com
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