There can be many additional reasons [for nagging those who make the decisions, authors].
"This is a watershed decision," author and long-time supporter of legalization Hector Aguilar Camín told Radio Formula.
It also legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade, a decision authored by one of Nixon's appointees, Blackmun, and joined by two others, Burger and Powell.
The case amounts to a direct challenge to the most famous decision authored by Sandra Day O'Connor during her long and consequential service on the Court.
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"To somehow view money as not having an effect on election, a corrupting effect on election, flies in the face of reality," Mr. McCain added of the court's 5-to-4 decision, authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy.
A dissent to Tuesday's decision, authored by Judge Robert Smith, argued that the New York shield law should not apply to Winter's sources because "the allegedly privileged communications took place wholly in Colorado" and the majority's ruling would lead to New York law applying wherever the reporter travelled — an "excessive expansion of New York's jurisdiction".
Just eight years later, the Court reaffirmed this holding in a decision authored by liberal Justice William Brennan.
Finally, in Apprendi v New Jersey (2000), Scalia joined a decision authored by the liberal justice John Paul Stevens, which put serious bite into a defendant's due process rights.
Last Thursday the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act in a careful, scholarly decision authored by Michael Boudin, a highly respected judge appointed by the President George H. W. Bush.
