Don Marti

Sun 17 Apr 2005 08:33:51 PM PDT

Supreme Court table

Justice	Age in 2008	Appointed	Rasul	Kyllo	Sony
Stevens	88	Ford 1975	+	-	+
Rehnquist	84	Nixon 1972*	-	-	-
Mean retirement age 1986-present: 81
Souter	79	Bush 1990	+	+	n/a
O'Connor	78	Reagan 1981	+	-	+
Ginsburg	75	Clinton 1993	+	+	n/a
Scalia	72	Reagan 1986	-	+	n/a
Kennedy	72	Reagan 1988	+	-	n/a
Breyer	70	Clinton 1994	+	+	n/a
Thomas	60	Bush 1991	-	+	n/a

• Promoted to Chief Justice by President Reagan in 1986.

Rasul: Rasul v. Bush 2004

• Nice try, but locking them up at Guantanamo Bay doesn't let you put them on the Kafka track.

• Can you believe it? The Geneva Conventions and the Bill of Rights both have an "if you feel like it" clause and nobody noticed before!

Kyllo: Kyllo v. United States 2001

• Searching someone's house with new technology is still a search.

• Infrared cameras aren't specifically mentioned in a document written 130 years before the invention of infrared film, so IR is fair game.

Sony: Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios 1984

• Technology with a substantial non-infringing use is legal.

• Que no haya novedad!

References

Wikipedia: Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme Court decisions from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.