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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:24 PM
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two good decisions came out of the SC today. One on racial discrimination and
Edited on Tue May-27-08 05:25 PM by cali
one on age discrimination. Both involve retaliation which the statutes are silent. The race cased was a 7-2 decision. Dissenters were Scalia and Thomas.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:27 PM
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1. Amazing, with Scalia and Thomas there..
we'll probably never have a unanimous decision. Those two are rabid ideologues. It's like moving a mountain.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:30 PM
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4. I had to check to verify that you were right, even though I knew you probably were
Well said.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:33 PM
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5. It's like moving a really stupid and backwards mountain. n/t
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:23 PM
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2. The votes on this were rather amazing....nt
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NJSecularist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:24 PM
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3. I'm surprised Alito and Roberts concurred.
Edited on Tue May-27-08 06:25 PM by NJSecularist
It is something I wouldn't expect them to do in this case.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 04:41 AM
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6. And Alito actually wrote the decision in the age discrimination
case. Damned surprising.
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