Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the lead opinion for himself, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy.
Consider the retirement in 2010 of Justice John Paul Stevens, at the age of 90.
John Paul Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer would have upheld the ban on the commercials.
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In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said "customs of speech" and context made the Federal Communications Commission's position unworkable.
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Twenty-one others chose to retire, the most recent being John Paul Stevens, who stepped down in 2010 at age 90.
And in his lone dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said similar lawsuits ought to be tried on a case-by-case basis.
John Paul Stevens just turned eighty-nine, and four Justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Scalia, Kennedy, and Stephen Breyer) are in their seventies.
More importantly, this is the first case where Roberts has stood alone with the high court's liberal justices--John Paul Stevens, David H.
Justice John Paul Stevens wanted to know whether it was safer for police if passengers were ordered out of the car or stayed in the car.
At various times, in certain cases, Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg get that rebellious Brennanite gleam in their eyes.
The lead opinion, written by Justice John Paul Stevens for himself, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy, conceded that Indiana has no history of in-person voter fraud.
Justices John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony Kennedy disagreed.
But a dissenting Justice John Paul Stevens said the court was "seriously misguided" in its attempt to limit state action designed to accommodate the political concerns of minority groups.
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer were in the majority opinion on the ruling, which was more than 300 pages.
As the senior Justice in the minority, John Paul Stevens assigned the main dissent to Souter, who was working on the opinion when he announced his departure, on April 30th.
Justice John Paul Stevens added, I fear that the gun ban struck down today may well be the first of an unknown number of dominoes to be knocked off the table.
As Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the minority in Citizens United, demonstrated, the Framers did not intend for the First Amendment to confer protections on businesses beyond freedom of the press.
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The court did not split on political grounds: the four dissenters, for instance, included two conservative justices (William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas) and two moderate justices (Sandra Day O'Connor and John Paul Stevens).
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In an unusual line-up, two conservative justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, sided with two of the court's most liberal members, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens, to back the majority ruling.
Writing for the Court's five justice majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said that the Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the authority to make rules concerning captured prisoners and implementing the laws of war.
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Justice JOHN PAUL STEVENS: So that it would have violated the First Amendment during World War II--whenever they're trying to raise an Army if they had compelled an unwilling university to provide recruitment facilities to the military?
Retirements for John Paul Stevens, 89, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 76, have been rumored for years, with many expecting that one or the other would be the first to give a new Democratic president a Supreme Court vacancy.
Of the many responsibilities accorded to a President by our Constitution, few are more weighty or consequential than that of appointing a Supreme Court justice -- particularly one to succeed a giant in the law like Justice John Paul Stevens.
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Under Supreme Court precedent, a state doesn't have the power to block the enforcement of federal law inside its borders, said Joseph Thai, a constitutional law professor at the University of Oklahoma who served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Byron White.
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