anthony kennedy

Last week, the West Virginia Supreme Court issued a well-deserved slap in the face to a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, which all too often makes up the law out of whole cloth to meet its latest view of what is social and politically correct. In June, the Court issued what may have been one of the worst opinions of the term in Caperton v. Massey Coal Company , a case I wrote about previously.  

It sounds good. But the reality on the ground, in cities and villages, homes and schools, and even in the courts, is quite different. Many discriminatory laws still relate to family law, limiting a woman's right to marry, divorce and remarry, and allowing for such marital practices as polygamy.  

Rumors of veterans departing their jobs far and wide, Anthony Kennedy 's story weakens, newspapers and magazines lose huge money, and Jon Fine 's media gig disappears. We have two separate (unconfirmed) staff change rumors today, from tipsters. First, at SI: At the ever-shrinking Sports Illustrated, the magazine's #2 , exec ed.  

In an Oct. 13 e-mail to student reporters, a George Washington law school PR official wrote that "the Supreme Court's Public Information Office has asked to approve any quotes you use from the justice's speech." WRGW news director Jesse Regis tells Jess Bravin he had no choice but to comply with the preclearance request. Justice Anthony Kennedy 's lecture was "a big event for us, and you have to play by their rules."  

Justice Anthony Kennedy got into a messy situation this month after a widely circulated report that his office made a school newspaper get permission before running an article about the justice. It turns out the incident at New York's Dalton School wasn't the only such case.... In an interview with The Wall Street Journal this week, Justice Kennedy said he generally bars outside news media from covering his classroom lectures, but permits student journalists to file reports.  

Justice Anthony Kennedy has long been seen as a champion of free-speech at the Supreme Court, and in an interview this week sought to dispel reports suggesting that he sought to control student press coverage of his visit last month to the private Dalton School in New York. Beyond relating his side of the story–that a new employee, misunderstanding his policy permitting student press coverage, asked to clear articles before publication–Kennedy offered thoughts on a range of issues, including his own teac

educators do not offend the First Amendment by exercising editorial control over the style and content of student speech in school-sponsored   -Byron White

 

Surely you remember Kelo v New London, the Supreme Court case that resulted in a drastic change to the United States' eminent domain law. In Kelo, the Court ruled that it was legal for a government agency — in this case, the City of New London, Conn. — to take property from one private owner and give it to another so as to increase government revenues. In Kelo, the Pfizer pharmaceutical company wanted New London to condemn private property so it could develop the property generally.  

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said he was frustrated by criticism of his response to a school newspaper's coverage and called it a misunderstanding that spiraled out of control.  

The Supreme Court last week became Exhibit A for the case that technological change is fast outpacing the ability of government to deal with it.