At the end of a course-changing, gut-wrenching Supreme Court term littered with heated 5-4 decisions, one bit of clarity is shining through: the Roberts Court, and especially its newest member, Justice Samuel Alito Jr., are both very conservative and very pro-business -- more so than any Supreme Court in decades. More than most novice justices, Alito has taken bullets for business in the term just ended, most notably for his controversial majority opinion in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber .
July 03, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
For years, if not decades, leading U.S. Chamber of Commerce lawyer Robin Conrad has told anyone who will listen that a conservative Supreme Court is not always a pro-business Supreme Court.
For example, conservative Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas have never been able to find, in their copies of the Constitution, any basis for limiting high punitive damage awards that are the bane of the business community.
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