In the Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet,, Justice David Souter, writing for the majority, concluded that " government should not prefer one religion to another, or religion to irreligion.

Writing for a four-Justice dissent in Alden, Justice David Souter said the states surrendered their sovereign immunity when they ratified the Constitution.

Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O ' Connor wrote the majority opinion ; they were joined by David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer, and opposed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia.

Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Yury Danilov, reviewing the book in a Moscow English-language daily, made the following remark on Souter's position in Bush v. Gore case: " In a most critical and delicate situation, David Souter had maintained the independence of his position and in this respect had become a symbol of the independence of the judiciary.

* Seven justices ( the five Justice majority plus Breyer and Souter ) agreed that there was an Equal Protection Clause violation in using different standards of counting in different counties.

In 2005, the town was proposed as the site of the Lost Liberty Hotel, a farmhouse owned at the time by U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter.

In the Supreme Court opinion of Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U. S. 544, 562 ( 2007 ), Justice Souter criticized the court below for an approach to pleading that " would dispense with any showing of a reasonably founded hope that a plaintiff would be able to make a case ; Mr. Micawber's optimism would be enough.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, and was joined by John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O ' Connor, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer.

Justice Stevens wrote a dissent in which Justices Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer joined.

Justice Souter wrote for the plurality: " Strategists dedicated to draining the substance out of Miranda cannot accomplish by training instructions what Dickerson held Congress could not do by statute.

At the conference of the Justices two days after oral argument, Justice Souter defied expectations, joining Justices O ' Connor, Stevens, and Blackmun, who had likewise refused to do so three years earlier in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services.

Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion of the court, in which Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice David Souter, and Justice Clarence Thomas joined.

David Hackett Souter (; born September 17, 1939 ) is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Appointed by President George H. W. Bush to fill the seat vacated by William J. Brennan, Jr., Souter was the only Justice during his time on the Court with extensive prior court experience outside of a federal appeals court, having served as a prosecutor, a state's attorney general, and as a judge on state trial and appellate courts.

* Supreme Court Justice Souter To Retire, Nina Totenberg, NPR, May 3, 2009

* Online Symposium: Justice Souter and the First Amendment, First Amendment Center, July 23, 2009

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion which Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer joined.

Justice Souter, for example, argued in Washington v. Glucksberg that the role of the Court in all cases, including unenumerated rights cases, is to ensure that the government's action has not been arbitrary.

The court's 5-4 decision was written by Justice Kennedy and joined by Justices Ginsburg, Stevens, Breyer, and Souter, and cited international law, child developmental science, and many other factors in reaching its conclusion.

Justice Breyer, joined by Justices Stevens, Souter, and Ginsburg, argued that it was primarily the responsibility of Congress, and not the courts, to put limits on Congress's power under the Commerce Clause.

2006, however, saw the introduction instead of the Criminal Justice Act 2006, which controversially contained an enormous rewrite of the Firearms Act, virtually rewriting 80 % of the Act completely.

Chief Justice Marshall, however, did not address jurisdictional issues until addressing the first two questions presented above.

In Sri Lanka, judges of all courts are addressed as " Your Honour ", however the Chief Justice is addressed as " Your Lordship ".

As a law clerk, however, he worked for both Judge Richard Posner and Justice Antonin Scalia, two influential conservative judges.

His failing health forced him to withdraw from politics, however the changing political climate did prompt him to challenge his conviction for discrimination at the European Court of Justice.

During this time, however, the court was divided 4-4 following the initial conference call because Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, one of the three liberal justices who continuously voted to uphold New Deal legislation, was absent due to an illness ; with this even division on the Court, the holding of the Washington Supreme Court, finding the minimum wage statute constitutional, would stand.

It was originally constructed to facilitate Toronto ’ s City Council, legal and municipal offices and the city's courts however following the construction of the fourth city hall ( adjacent to the third, on Queen Street ) the building's purpose was limited to being solely a courthouse for the Ontario Court of Justice.

Chief Justice Warren however did not swear in Kennedy's successor Lyndon B Johnson when he first became President as the chief justice was not available at the time of Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Morgan Stanley has currently made no admission of any wrongdoing ; however, the Justice department commented that they hoped this would " send a message to the banking industry ".

With his good academic reputation however, several other members of staff at the University agreed to provide him with a job as a tutor in Ancient History in the Department of Tutorial Classes, but ultimately he was prevented from doing so by the Chancellor of the University, Chief Justice Sir William Cullen, who feared that Childe would propagate his socialist ideas to students.

The Ministry of Justice, however, did not hesitate to incorporate this claim in the indictment and to send the indictment to the defendant.

In common with other courts in the European Union, however, the Law Lords referred points involving European Union law to the European Court of Justice.

" Jay, however, was unaware that CLIT is an acronym for Coalition for the Liberation of Itinerant Tree-Dwellers, the name of the organization that Justice is a part of.

DC Comics, however, soon revealed that a new volume of Justice Society of America would be published, written by James Robinson and drawn by Nicola Scott and set on a new version of Earth-2.

Until 2005, the Home Secretary was the minister responsible for prisons and probation, however that was transferred to the newly-created Ministry of Justice.

Instead, they claimed to propose legislating for civil union, however attempts by the Labour Party to legislate for civil unions in the previous Dáil were forestalled by PD Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Michael McDowell, due to his insistence that non-sex relationships be recognised too.

Justice Powell's rationale, however, did not carry a majority of justices.

These are commonly intended as statuesque display pieces rather than toys ; however, child-oriented lines such as the Masters of the Universe revival and Justice League Unlimited still evoke adult collector followings as well.

The plan to abolish the office, however, was later abandoned though it was partially reformed in the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and is now used as a secondary title to the Secretary of State for Justice.

Unlike the Minister for Justice, the Minister for Foreign Affairs did however continue to be styled as " Excellency ", an honour shared only with the Prime Minister.

Justice Thomas concurred that racial preferences would be unlawful in 25 years, however, he noted that in fact the Court should have found race-based affirmative action programs in higher education unlawful now:

There was, however, significant tension between himself and members of the party, most notably the former Bourassa cabinet minister Pierre Paradis ( whom Charest excluded from his cabinet ) and the resignations of several important members of his cabinet, notably Finance Minister Yves Seguin, Justice Minister Marc Bellemare, and Environment Minister Thomas Mulcair.

The Mosquito Coast was incorporated into Nicaragua in 1894 ; however, in 1960 the northern part was granted to Honduras by the International Court of Justice.

On February 3, 1988, however, the Supreme Court of New Jersey, led by Chief Justice Robert Wilentz, invalidated surrogacy contracts as against public policy but in dicta affirmed the trial court's use of a " best interest of the child " analysis and remanded the case to family court.

In the early 1920s the American Bar Association presented a statue of Blackstone to the English Bar Association, however, at the time, the sculpture was too tall to be placed in the Royal Courts of Justice.