Antonin Scalia: Supreme Court Justice
Born on March 11, 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey, Antonin Scalia was the only child of Eugene and Catherine Scalia. His father was an Italian immigrant who worked as a professor and his mother, an Italian-American, taught school. Scalia attended public school in Queens, NY where he adopted the name "Nino" (Smith, 1993). He later enrolled in St. Francis Xavier, a military prep school where he graduated at the top of his class. Academic success followed him to Georgetown University where he completed his undergraduate degree in History and graduated as class valedictorian. Scalia went on to Harvard Law School and graduated magna cum laude in 1960. Later that year he met and married Maureen McCarthy, the couple has 9 children. Scalia has a very impressive professional resume; his legal career began in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1962. By 1967 he decided to change professions to and taught law at the University of Virginia for four years (http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/scalia.bio.html). Scalia made a good impression among his
On March 22, 2000, writing for the court, Justice Scalia delivered the opinion in the case. Scalia referred to the Lanham Act, which provides for the registration of trademarks and trade dress, which encompasses the design of a product. He noted that a product design is only protectible upon the showing of a secondary meaning. The colors cannot be protected. The judgment of the Second Circuit was reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings consistent with the opinion. Antonin Scalia is one of the most colorful and lively justices on the nine-member bench; no other justice has one, yet alone two websites set up by admirers. On the other hand, there are critics, who's complaint is that his originalist ideas tend to freeze the constitution in time, rather than allowing it to speak to contemporary needs (Schultz, 1996). Justice Scalia does not side with the patriotic or traditional camp, he feels that interpretation is everything. Scalia's big impact on the bench has been on the way the court approaches constitutional
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