David+Souter

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 *  Name:   ****  David Hackett Souter    **      ======

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 *  Date of Birth:   ****  September 17,1939    **      ======

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 *  Current Age:   ****  69 years old    ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">    ======

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 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Date of   **** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Appointment:    **** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> October 9,1990    ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">    <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">    ======

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=**__<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Personal History  __**<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">    = <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Appointed by:   ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">    ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">George H. W. Bush    ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">    <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">    ======

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**<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Early life:  ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">He was born in Melrose, Massachusetts he grew up with his parents and spent many summers in Weare, New Hampshire, in his grandparent’s farm. Then when the grandparents died when he was 11, they moved to the family farm. His dad worked as a banker in the nearby city of Concord. He was upper middle-class. He is Episcopalian. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   ======

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**<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Education:  ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">He went to Concord High School. He went to Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude on 1961. He was elected to the Phi Betta Kappa (a special society that people are elected to if they are really good students, so it’s a great honor). He went to Magdalen College in Oxford for two years where he got his bachelor’s and master’s degree in jurisprudence (the theory and philosophy of law). Then he came back to Harvard on 1963 to study law. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   ====== <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">

<span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Legal/Political Career prior to serving on the US Supreme Court:    ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> Associate in the Concord law firm of Orr & Reno (1966-1968). Assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire (1968) beginning public service. When Warren Rudman became attorney general, he elected Souter to be Deputy Attorney General. After Rudman resigned, he was appointed to be attorney general for New Hampshire (1968). He became a judge after two years, traveling around the state, so he was exposed to many different types of cases. Then he was promoted to the New Hampshire Supreme Court (1983), he was appointed by Governor John Sununu. He was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals by President Bush (1990), but since William J. Brennan retired five months afterwards, he was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">He was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals by President Bush (1990), but since William J. Brennan retired five months afterwards, he was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> Friends/Family/Mentors/Experiences that could have shaped your justice's views:   ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">    <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">He was good friends with Warren Rudman and Governor John Sununu, who definitely helped with him becoming an U.S. Supreme Court Justice. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> **__ <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> US Supreme Court Career   __** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">

<span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> Voting Record and On the Issues:    <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">    <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> Decisions:    <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">He voted for women's choice in Row Vs. Wade He voted for people to have right to own and carry a gun. He does not believe in the Death sentance, but insted having a life time in jail

<span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  __ <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Brown v. Sanders     __<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">      <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">About: Sanders was being sentenced to death for murdered in California. The jury was told to examine four different circumstances while sentencing, but two of these were said to be invalid by the state supreme court, but they kept the same sentence. Did this break the eighth amendment (cruel and unusual punishments) because the California Supreme Court still kept the sentence after two of the four circumstances were said to be invalid? The Supreme Court said that it didn’t because the two valid sentences would have still made Sanders eligible for the death sentence. The two invalid circumstances added no extra weight to the punishment, since it only added to the already known facts. Souter voted with the minority, joining Stevens dissent. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">      <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  __ <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Ash v. Tyson Foods     __<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">      <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">About:     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">    <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">      <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">”Ash, an African American and an employee at a Tyson Foods poultry plant, was passed over for a promotion and sued the company for employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Tyson claimed that Ash had been passed over for a more qualified employee, and in response Ash introduced evidence of his own superior qualifications in order to show that Tyson's reason was merely a pretext.” When presented to the court of appeals, they said that Ash’s evidence hadn’t been sufficient and that when a Tyson plant manager used the word “boy” to refer to Ash, it wasn’t criminal discrimination. When presented to the Supreme Court, they said that these decisions had been a mistake. That the meaning of boy really “depends ‘on various factors including context, inflection, tone of voice, local custom, and historical usage,’ and not on the presence of racial modifiers like ‘black’ or ‘white.’” Ash won unanimously. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  __ <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">United States     ____ <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> v. Georgia     __<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Georgia     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> was being sued in a federal court by Goodman, a paraplegic     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">(“An impairment in motor and/or sensory function of the lower extremities. It is usually the result of spinal cord injury or a congenital condition such as spinal bifida which affects the neural elements of the spinal canal.”)     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">held in a Georgia prison, for having prison conditions that discriminated disabled people and violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Georgia said the 11th Amendment protected the state from such a claim, with the district court ruling with Georgia, but the 11th Court of Appeals went against it. Before the 11th Circuit ruled the case, the U.S. sued Georgia, saying the 11th Amendment was abolished by the ADA’s Title II, by the 14th Amendment power to enforce equal protection. It was an unanimous vote for the United States. The Supreme Court ruled that Title II did terminate the immunity of the 11th Amendment when cases violated the 8th Amendment. So Congress could enforce the 14th Amendment. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">    <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Phillip Morris, USA v. Williams    **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Jesse Williams spent his life smoking three packs of Marlboro cigarettes per day. After he died of lung cancer, his widow sued Phillip Morris, the manufacturer of Marlboro. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">They gave her $821,485.50 in compensatory (The actual cost for the care, etc.)    <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">damages and $79.5 million in punitive (penalizing the company for its actions) damages. It was taken to the Supreme Court. David Souter went with the majority that said $79.5 million was way too much to just give her. The damages of that much money were for all Marlboro users. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Zuni Public School District v. U.S. Department of Education    **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">The Zuni public school district complained about how much money they received from the state of New Mexico. Since they are on an Indian reservation, they naturally get money from the federal government. All schools are supposed to get the same amount of money per student, according the U.S. Department of Education. However, at this school, they gave them less money because of the federal funding they received. David Souter did not vote with the majority on this case. He voted for the Zuni school district, saying they deserved more money. The majority thought the federal rules so vague that Zuni didn’t need any more money. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association v. Brentwood Academy    ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Brentwood Academy, a private school, joined the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, which is mainly for public schools. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">One of the Brentwood coaches broke one of the TSSAA rules by recruiting players from other schools. After doing this, TSSAA placed penalties on Brentwood Academy. Brentwood sued, saying their First Amendment right to be able to speak openly was violated. David Souter ruled with the unanimous majority that this case had nothing to do with the First Amendment. They said Brentwood entered into a contract with the TSSAA and should have abided by it. <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);">Judicial Philosophy/Ideology: Even though David Souter is recublican, he usually leans to the liberal side of voting. The correct term for him is "Moderate Libertarian Liberal"  <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="color: rgb(55, 190, 246);"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Souter http://www.oyez.org/justices/david_h_souter/ http://www.oyez.org/justices/david_h_souter/details/ http://www.ontheissues.org/David_Souter.htm http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2005/2005_04_1203/ http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2005/2005_05_379/ http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2005/2005_04_980/