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Contents Justices Guides Case List Introduction Antonin Scalia (1936-) Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, appointed by Ronald Reagan (R) in 1986. Replaced William H. Rehnquist when Rehnquist was promoted to Chief Justice upon the retirement of Warren E. Burger. Scalia has, on the whole lived up to the restraintist credentials that propelled him to the high bench. In ...

Antonin Scalia 1986- ANTONIN SCALIA was born March 11, 1936, in Trenton, New Jersey, the only child of S. Eugene Scalia and Catherine Scalia. His father, who was born in Sicily and emigrated to the United States as a young man, was a professor of Romance languages. His mother, born to immigrant Italian parents, was a schoolteacher. As the first American of Italian heritage appointed to the ...

John Paul Stevens 1975- JOHN PAUL STEVENS was born in Chicago April 10, 1920, the youngest of four children, all sons, of Ernest James Stevens and Elizabeth Street Stevens. His father made a fortune in hotels and insurance and for a time owned and managed the Stevens Hotel, now the Chicago Hilton. The family home was adjacent to the University of Chicago. Stevens attended high school in the ...

Supreme Court Report Nine Supreme Individualists: A Guide to the Conversation By Joan Biskupic Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 28, 1998; Page A15 The way their mahogany bench rises up at the front of the marble courtroom, the Supreme Court justices appear as nine heads atop black robes, shaking and nodding, leaning forward, drawing back. While they speak collectively as the Court ...

Speech At The Annual Dinner Of The American Law Institute by Ruth Bader Ginsburg Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States May 19, 1994 If I am the happiest camper, then your Dean, the Honorable Howard Markey is truly extraordinary, for he can make even the most sober judge laugh. And that's why an invitation from him was irresistible to me. I have some prepared remarks of the Supreme ...

Anthony M. Kennedy 1988- ANTHONY MCLEOD KENNEDY was born July 23, 1936, in Sacramento, California, and lived there nearly all his life before being appointed to the Supreme Court. His father, Anthony J. Kennedy, had worked on the docks and put himself through the University of California, graduating from law school in 1927. He moved to Sacramento to take his first job as executive secretary to ...

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg and just one of the clerks William Hodes Clerking for Ginsberg By Susan Voelkel A good many law school professors have been U.S. Supreme Court law clerks, but never before has a Supreme Court law clerk been a tenured law professor. IUPUI Law Professor William Hodes set a new legal precedent and was a little out of order when he clerked. Usually law clerks are ...

June 26, 1992 ANALYSIS Changed Path for Court New Balance Is Held By 3 Cautious Justices By LINDA GREENHOUSE ASHINGTON -- Defying almost all expectations, the Supreme Court has rebuffed the Bush Administration within the past week on two issues the Administration cares most about, religion and habeas corpus. The setbacks were startling, raising these questions: Did the Administration's lawyers ...

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November 12, 1987 THE JUSTICES Restrained Pragmatist Anthony M. Kennedy In This Article 'Does Not Go Off on Tangents' 'He's More Provincial' Turning Point for Lawyer By ROBERT REINHOLD AN FRANCISCO -- In the modern world of family turmoil, the life of Judge Anthony McLeod Kennedy seems almost like a living Norman Rockwell portrait of provincial constancy and familial loyalty. He has been married ...