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...decision in Boumediene and will likely again be a swing vote. In the year since Boumediene was decided, Justice Sonia Sotomayor has replaced Justice David Souter on the court. She has not yet had time to fully reveal her views on national...

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...Football League) and arbitration (Stolt-Nielsen v. Animalfeeds). Sotomayor's replacement of former justice David Souter seems unlikely to change the outcome of many cases. But her long service as an attorney and as a lower court judge will...

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...recently retired and the feisty New Yorker who will replace him. Souter was well liked by his colleagues but there is little evidence that he tried hard to influence them. Sonia Sotomayor confirmed for Supreme Court On Saturday, she will...

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...named by a Democratic president in 15 years and the first Hispanic on the high court. Sotomayor succeeded Justice David Souter, who retired in June. She generally is expected to vote with the three other liberals as Souter did. "The 2009...

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...must honor a suspect's request for an attorney. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is replacing retired Justice David Souter, displayed no reticence on the first day of her first term on the court. In the two cases on the docket yesterday,...

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...to "do equal right to the poor and to the rich" as a justice. Sotomayor, who succeeds retired Supreme Court justice David Souter, officially took the judicial oath on Aug. 8. Tuesday's investiture was pure ritual: Numerous dignitaries,...

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But that was yesterday's Supreme Court. The newest justice, Sonia Sotomayor, has done all three of those things - in the less than two months since she replaced Souter on the court. While the Supreme Court is all about the law,...

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...Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice, will join the other eight justices. Sotomayor replaces Justice David Souter, who retired. But this won't be her first time behind the high court bench. Sotomayor joined the court in...

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