Tag: Justice Sotamayor
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Via Hawaiinewsnow.com: US Supreme court justice chooses UH Law graduate to serve as law clerk
An excerpt: HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) –Kamaile Turcan, a graduate of Kamehameha Schools, UC Berkeley and the William S. Richardson School of Law at UH Manoa, has been chosen for a prestigious law clerk position by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor beginning this summer. This is the first time a UH Law School graduate has been…
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Via TurtleTalk: Supreme Court Oral Argument Transcript in Dollar General
Transcript available here. Here are some interesting passages: Justice Sotamayor (questioning counsel for Dollar General at p 10): States appoint judges. Sometimes they’re elected, but often they’re appointed. We don’t think it lacks being a neutral forum because the State can sue a citizen there. We think of it as neutral because the judges are neutral.…