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" We reserve that disposition because the four-year sentence elevation , based solely on a judge 's fact-finding , denied Cunningham his Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury , " Ginsburg read from the bench.As for a remedy , Ginsburg said , " the ball lies in California 's court . One out of every nine people in New York City and one out of every 19 people in the country are employed by the financial services sector , the report said.The 145-page , $ 600,000 report emphasized immigration policy as a potential threat to New York City 's high-quality workforce . It 's a mecca for foreign diplomats , who have immunity from prosecution or lawsuits - - including parking laws - - when they are on assignment in the United States.The first thing the economists wanted to know is whether some envoys took advantage of their diplomatic free pass to park in no-parking zones.You bet.Kuwait led the list of international parking scofflaws . The phenomenon is called " stereotype threat " - - a kind of performance anxiety discovered in 1995 when psychologists found that black students at Stanford University did significantly worse on intelligence tests if they were first asked to identify their race on the test form.Since then , dozens of other experiments have confirmed that subtly cuing women or minorities to think subconsciously about their sex or race causes them do poorly in areas where the stereotype suggests they are weak . Supreme Court clerks are routinely given a signing bonus equivalent to a justice 's annual salary when they join one of Washington 's top law firms after a year at the court , and Roberts pointed out that beginning lawyers often make as much as the experienced federal judges before whom they practice.Some law professors and other legal activists have said the threat to the judiciary by stagnant salaries is overblown , and that those who want to be judges are n't drawn by compensation.But Roberts and others - - Justice Antonin Scalia has also recently called for increases - - say it is affecting the type of lawyer who wants to be a judge . " Taplin orders a coffee and cranes his neck toward the entrance , where , in the next few minutes , half of his little brigade trickles in : Bill Campenni , the retired Air National Guard fighter pilot ; his wife , Kathleen , the Canadian emigre who is now a U.S. citizen ; Diane Bonieskie , the retired schoolteacher ; Jeff Talley , who says he 's losing his aircraft repair job because it 's being outsourced to Mexico ; and Joe , who wo n't provide his last name or say what he does because " who knows who might get the information . They were asked whether the killing was deliberate and whether the killer constituted a continuing threat to society.Several Supreme Court decisions have said that jurors also need to consider mitigating evidence , such as the IQ of the defendant or an abusive background.In 2004 , the court decided 7 to 2 in the case of LaRoyce Smith , who had murdered a Taco Bell manager in Dallas , that there were broad problems with the Texas law , which has since been changed . These mutts exude the contentment of society housewives detoxing at an ashram , soothed into near total silence under a glass skylight skimmed by cascading sheets of recirculated water , the room aglow with daylight streaming through glass walls and thrumming with piped-in harp music . MedImmune maintains that it always questioned the patent , and agreed to license it " under protest " because its only alternatives were to give up a huge piece of business or face the threat of a triple-damages infringement suit by Genentech . With North Carolina the most recent state to make cockfighting a felony , fans of the bloody sport , many of them Latino immigrants from the Carolinas and the Washington area , are making rural Virginia a cockfighting mecca , animal-rights advocates say . " The ball lies in California 's court , " Ginsburg said.Justices Antonin Scalia , David H. Souter , John Paul Stevens and Clarence Thomas also were in the majority on an issue that confounds the typical conservative-liberal split on the court.Ohio State University law professor Douglas Berman , an expert on sentencing law , said the decision makes one point crystal clear .