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In his 11-page opinion , Einhorn described the proceedings as " a festering wound on the body of respondents and an embarrassment to the rule of law . State law instructs judges to sentence inmates to the middle of three options _ in this case , 12 years _ unless factors that did not go before the jury exist to justify a shorter or longer prison term.The justices said such a sentencing scheme violates defendants ' rights to be tried before a jury.Cunningham got the maximum because the sentencing judge said there were several aggravating circumstances to the crime , including the defendant threatening the victim to try to make him recant.In defending its law , the state warned that its criminal justice system would be burdened by having to re-sentence thousands of inmates . In civil rights cases , Alito has sided against three of every four people who claimed to have been victims of discrimination , based on the lawsuits in the analysis . Korean Confucianism , for example , has developed into more of an ethical system than a religion , and its influence is wide and pervasive . " We discussed every possible approach . " It may be that he has an effect on the other justices . And lefties , stay in school : Those who finished all four years of college earned , on average , a whopping 21 percent more than similarly educated right-handed men . " When the court takes up the federal abortion law , it will be considering a statute that was passed by a large majority in Congress and signed by Bush in 2003 - - and then struck down by every lower federal court that has considered it.The lower courts ruled that the law is incompatible with a 5 to 4 ruling by the Supreme Court in 2000 that held that a similar state law , from Nebraska , was unconstitutional.In that case , known as Stenberg v. Carhart , the court said the statute could be read to prohibit other procedures and lacked an exception to protect a mother 's health , creating an " undue burden " on the right to abortion first recognized in Roe.The Republican-controlled Congress included an exception to save a mother 's life . Only a handful of decisions each year define the Supreme Court for the American public , and that might be especially appropriate this year.After decades of decline in its caseload , the court is once again on track to take its fewest number of cases in modern history . " You're characterizing each student by reason of the color of his or her skin , " Justice Anthony Kennedy told a lawyer representing the Seattle school board . 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 . He would like to see the court spend time on other sentencing disparities " that affect thousands of people every day . There 's more to this town than just Democrats and Republicans , though they 'd never know it , never even fathom it , what with their chronic obsession with each other.But as the new Alfalfa Party nominee said last night in accepting the nomination during the Alfalfa Club 's annual dinner , " Quitus whinus over spiltus milkus . The high court in this term has already reversed a 9th Circuit decision that overturned a death sentence.Dieter said the justices are " in a rather complex area of the law . 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 . Each of Egypt 's statesmen averaged 139.6 tickets a year , while members of Chad 's tiny delegation , which amounted to two diplomats in 1998 , averaged 124.3 . But alas , the results of this study , properly and widely disseminated , just might motivate more retirees to take up an inner directed and scheduled program of mental exercises every day for the rest of their lives . " He 's a reservist , and it 's unusual for reservists to be on extended active duty for this period of time pending an investigation , " Spitzberg said.Lt . Compared with the control group , those who got memory training did 75 percent better on memory tasks five years later , those who got the reasoning training did 40 percent better on reasoning tasks , and those who got the speed training did 300 percent better than the control group.Researchers noted that mental skills can sometimes compensate for physical disabilities : Knowing how to figure out directions and find a new route on a map , for example , could allow someone to retain mobility even after their night vision deteriorates to the point where driving on certain roads becomes difficult.The study tracked 2,802 healthy adults from diverse backgrounds who were , on average , 73 years old . Its diplomats each collected an average of 246.2 unpaid tickets annually during the 1997-2002 study period . " Someone else is going to have to judge those things , " she said . And this dependence leaves us more vulnerable to hostile regimes , and to terrorists - - who could cause huge disruptions of oil shipments , raise the price of oil and do great harm to our economy . It overturned a $ 4 million punitive-damage award to an Alabama man who had sued a BMW dealer for selling him a repainted car instead of a new one.For the first time , the court declared that the constitutional right to due process of law meant that companies may not be subject to disproportionate punitive damages.In 2003 , the court broadly defined what qualifies as an excessive award , suggesting that punitive damages should normally be no more than nine times as large as compensatory damages .