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27 Jun 2011, 9:42 am by Elie Mystal
Entertainment Merchants Association is fascinating.You’ve got Antonin Scalia writing the majority opinion in a 7 – 2 case. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 8:03 am
Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court in Brown v. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 7:32 am by David Kravets
The court agreed, ruling 7-2 with Justice Antonin Scalia writing the majority. (.pdf) “Our cases have been clear that the obscenity exception to the First Amendment does not cover whatever a legislature finds shocking, but only depictions of ’sexual conduct,’” Scalia wrote. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 6:28 am by Lovechilde
Common Cause, last year called on the Justice Department to look into other political connections of Thomas, as well as Justice Antonin Scalia. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 6:26 am by Evan Shultz
”  (Not to put too fine a point on it, Justice Antonin Scalia was quoted in a 2004 book as claiming that Justice Thomas “doesn’t believe in stare decisis, period. [read post]
26 Jun 2011, 8:01 am by Paul Horwitz
"  I attribute this interest largely to three people: Antonin Scalia, whose Smith decision continues to prompt efforts to define religion as special to overcome or get around Smith; Chris Eisgruber and Larry Sager (for present purposes, I will treat them as one composite person with an unusually large number of hands and feet), whose  work on Equal Liberty has many of us asking whether equal liberty is all there is in law and religion; and Brian Leiter, whose recent… [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 7:39 am by Randy Barnett
It signaled a dangerous escalation in the left’s politicization of the courts and “set the tone,” says Politico, for this year’s “aggressive — and, at times, personal — attack on the… impartiality and ethics of Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and, to a lesser extent, Samuel Alito. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 7:07 am by Juan Antunez
Roberts agreed with that decision, and was joined in his judgment by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 6:58 am by Lyle Denniston
The Court majority, whatever its current size, does not yet seem ready to cast aside altogether the “exclusionary rule” — a Fourth Amendment interpretation that dates back 97 years (although Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, has questioned the need to retain it). [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 1:54 pm
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, wrote the majority decision, which reaffirmed the Court 2009 decision in Melendez-Diaz v. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 9:16 am by Hunton & Williams LLP
  But, the Supreme Court, in an opinion delivered by Justice Antonin Scalia, held that the certification of the plaintiff class was inconsistent with both Rules 23(a) and 23(b)(2). [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 6:20 am by David Oscar Markus
From the WaPo:The constitutional guarantee that a defendant be able to confront his accusers means prosecutors must produce even the technicians involved in the specific laboratory tests used in his trial, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.In a case involving a drunken driver from New Mexico, a majority of the court reinforced its recent decisions that fortified the right of defendants to cross-examine witnesses, established in the Sixth Amendment.The rulings have scrambled the court’s usual… [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 3:14 pm by Lyle Denniston
., Sonia Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 12:35 pm by Lyle Denniston
Those declarations had the support of Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas (although Thomas refused to support a footnote that suggested that some “business and public records” could be admitted as evidence even without confrontation, because of the benign purpose for which they were offered. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 8:34 am by Lyle Denniston
” Although Justice Antonin Scalia joined the Roberts opinion, giving it a majority of five votes on the constitutional question, he wrote separately to argue that the ruling did not go far enough. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 8:03 am
Roberts, Jr. issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Antonin Scalia, Kennedy, and Alito joined. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 1:41 pm by Lyle Denniston
That verdict was blocked temporarily by Justice Antonin Scalia last September, as he expressed concern about “abuse of the class-action device. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 10:00 am by PunditMom
  But digging deeper into the 5-4 opinion penned by Antonin “the Constitution doesn’t protect women against discrimination” Scalia, you’ll find that Scalia turned a procedural case into the latest substantive attack on women. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 4:56 pm
Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion for the court’s conservative majority said there needs to be common elements tying together “literally millions of employment decisions at once. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 3:41 pm by Greg Mersol
The majority decision, authored by Justice Antonin Scalia, not only accepted Wal-Mart's arguments, but also addressed other troubling rulings made by the courts below. [read post]