Stephen Breyer News
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When Will Supreme Court's Aging Liberal Justices Retire?When will Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer retire? It’s a question that has surfaced as the Supreme Court term has come to an end in recent years. READ: ABC News’ Supreme Court Coverage But anticipation about the future plans of...
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Court Seems Split Over Spouse's Right to Protest Visa Denial
… or whatever the foreign name is, and they just get the wrong one." What if the consular officer was racist, Justice Stephen Breyer asked. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wore a cast on her right arm after having surgery to treat compressed nerves …
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Can Victims' Families Wear Buttons in Court?
… Gregory Ott, told the justices that the buttons "added little to nothing" to the jury's perception of the case. But Justice Breyer admitted he was "concerned with buttons" and he wondered if in general it wasn't "pretty hard to draw lines among buttons …
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Ballots to Limit Judges' Power
… amendments or initiatives that specifically target judges." Last month in Washington, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer co-chaired a conference on fair and independent courts. Judges participated from around the country. Debate ensued on …
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Obama And George Go One-On-One
… 1jRwdRx WHEN WILL SUPREME COURT'S AGING LIBERAL JUSTICES RETIRE? When will Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer retire? It's a question that has surfaced as the Supreme Court term has come to an end in recent years, ABC's BENJAMIN …
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Supreme Court's Aereo Decision Victory for Broadcasters
… does not have any license from copyright holders to record or transmit their programs. In a 6-3 decision Justice Stephen Breyer said Aereo violated the Copyright Act of 1976 which gives a copyright owner the "exclusive right" to perform …
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Supreme Court Rules for Broadcasters in Fight With Aereo
… computing, which gives users access to a vast online computer network that stores and processes information. But Justice Stephen Breyer in his majority opinion that the court did not intend to call cloud computing into question. Justices Antonin …
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Bizarre Love Triangle Poisin Case Overturned By Supreme Court
… federal prison, rather than dealt with (like virtually all other criminals in Pennsylvania) by the state." The chief justice was joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer , Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
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Clinton Fatigue? Not So Much
… dignity the Constitution protects." Kennedy was joined in his opinion by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. http://abcn.ws/1jY6s6X IN THE NOTE'S INBOX GOP LAUNCHES ROBOCALL, TWITTER CAMPAIGN ON VA …
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Rigid IQ Cutoff to Execute Mentally Disabled
… dignity the Constitution protects." Kennedy was joined in his opinion by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. Kennedy said that when a defendant's IQ test score falls within the test's "acknowledged and inherent …
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Supreme Court Upholds Prayer at Town Meetings
… communities just as the Founders did." Justice Elena Kagan wrote the main dissent that was joined by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. Kagan noted that she agrees with the court's 1983 decision in Marsh v. Chambers but that this case …
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Excerpt: Justice John Paul Stevens' 'Six Amendments'… international terrorist, may require a national response before federal personnel can be made available to respond. 10 As Justice Breyer pointed out in his own dissent in the Printz case: I would add to the reasons Justice Stevens sets forth the fact that …
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits on Campaign Contributions… Justice Clarence Thomas signed on to the holding but would have gone further by overruling court precedent. Justice Stephen Breyer read a stinging dissent from the bench. He was joined by Justices Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan …
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Contraception Latest Supreme Court Rift on Obamacare… wood cabinet company owned by a Mennonite family. “That’s not going to happen in the real world.” Justice Stephen Breyer , another key voice on the court, zeroed in on questions about religious liberty. He pointedly asked the government …
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President's Recess Appointments Get Cold Reception at Supreme Court
… intransigence rather than to deal with the happenstance that the Senate is not in session when a vacancy becomes open." Justice Stephen Breyer targeted the purpose of the Recess Appointment Clause written at a time when Congress left for long periods of …
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Instant Index: Happy 79th Birthday, Elvis!… She was also called in 2011. Kagan joins a long line of famous faces doing their duty including fellow Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer , Vice President Joe Biden, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sen. John McCain and even leading …
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Justices Hear Love Triangle Meets States' Rights Case
… said. "On Halloween we gave them chocolate bars. Chocolate is poison to dogs so it's a toxic chemical." Justice Stephen Breyer joined the conservative justices' line of inquiry, wondering if the statute could include cyclist Lance Armstrong …
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Justice Ginsburg: 'As Long As I Can Do the Job Full Steam, I Will'… Kagan was recused from the case, presumably because she dealt with it in her previous job as solicitor general. Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the majority opinion. Not Ginsburg. Instead, her dissent contained strong …
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Supreme Court Gay Marriage Cases: Take a Look at the Tea Leaves
… recognition and full status. The voice of those children is important in this case, don't you think?" 2. Justice Stephen Breyer to Cooper: "Now, what happens to your argument about the institution of marriage as a tool towards procreation …
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Supreme Court Upholds 'Minor Intrusion' of Arrestee DNA Swabs… Amendment," Kennedy wrote. Kennedy was joined in his opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito. Justice Antonin Scalia dissented from the opinion and was joined by Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor …
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Justice Breyer Hospitalized After AccidentSurpreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has been hospitalized following ..... spokesperson said today. "Associate Justice Stephen Breyer underwent reverse shoulder replacement ..... Associated Press reported. Justice Breyer was appointed by President Clinton …
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Supreme Court Limits Human Rights Suits
… Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Kennedy and Alito also wrote separately. Justice Stephen Breyer , joined by the liberals on the Court (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor), wrote an opinion …
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Supreme Court Rejects Secret Surveillance Challenge
… reasonably believed" to be overseas and it is not meant to intentionally target a person in the United States. Justice Stephen Breyer , writing in dissent for himself and Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Ginsburg, said that the issue of "standing …
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Indiana Farmer Takes on Seed Behemoth Monsanto; Justices Skeptical of Farmer's Claim… making a copy of the patented invention. And that is what he did. So it's generation 3 that concerns us," Justice Stephen Breyer said. "The Exhaustion Doctrine permits you to use the goods that you buy," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said …
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How the Presidential Election Might Change Supreme Court… justices are ready to retire, the very fact that four of them ---Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer -- are in their 70s suggests that there is a possibility that the next president will be able to nominate a new justice …
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Affirmative Action: Supreme Court Justices Skeptical of University of Texas Plan
… This program is certainly no more aggressive than the one in Grutter; it's more - in fact, more modest." Justice Stephen Breyer pointed out how recently the court upheld Grutter. "Grutter said it would be good law for at least 25 years …
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Airplane 'Tickets'? Radios? Not for Class of 2016
… Probably the most tribal generation in history, they despise being separated from contact with their similar-aged friends. Stephen Breyer has always been an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Martin Lawrence has always been banned from hosting …
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Scalia Plans Book Tour, Interview… desirability of the fair reading's anticipated consequences." For another take on interpreting legal text see Justice Stephen Breyer 's own book, Active Liberty. It's been a busy few months for Scalia. Even in a term that did not exactly …
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Supreme Court Curbs Health Reform Expansion of Medicaid
… to reject expansion; that is the whole point." But what is interesting is that liberal justices like Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer joined the five conservatives to insist that the states couldn't be threatened with a loss of funding. Get more pure …
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Supreme Court upholds key part of Arizona immigration law
… Kennedy, the court's swing vote, wrote the opinion, and was joined by Chief Justice Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. Conservative Justices Scalia, Alito and Thomas partially dissented, saying the entire law should …
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Insider poll: Legal experts now expect Supreme Court to strike down individual mandate
… who have worked for justices on both sides of the ideological spectrum: Eleven clerked for traditionally liberal Justices Stephen Breyer , Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, 18 clerked for justices on the right, Samuel Alito, John Roberts …
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'Citizens United' Bounces Back to Supreme Court
… to grant a full hearing and perhaps a second look at Citizens United. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justice Stephen Breyer (both dissenters in Citizens United) agreed in February that the court should temporarily block the Montana …
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Defining Moment (The Note)
… dedicated fans,' the president said in a written statement." http://abcn.ws/JRjka7 JUSTICE BREYER ROBBED AGAIN. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed again, reports ABC's Ariane deVogue. This time a housekeeper discovered …
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Justice Breyer Is Robbed AgainSupreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has been robbed again. This time a housekeeper discovered that his Georgetown home had been burglarized while no one was home …