Sotomayor on Discrimination, Class-Action and Securities Litigation

Business Week by Theo Francis | May. 26, 2009 (News Analysis)

Since David Souter said he’d leave the Supreme Court, we’ve made the case that business law doesn’t follow the usual right-left split, and that President Obama’s nominee to replace him, Sonia Sotomayor, looks like the same sort of business pragmatist he has been. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - May 26, 2009 - 10:15 PM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - May 26, 2009 - 10:15 PM PDT

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 by Dwight Rousu - May. 26, 2009

Francis looks mostly at one case, and thinks it suggests that Sotomayor may be a bit of a corporatist. This is a problem if true, given the current corporatist control of the Supreme Court. The article is good in that it addresses legal issues rather than just the horse race of character assassination.

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  • Interest Groups Prepare to Battle on Sotomayor

    New York Times by David Kirkpatrick | May. 27, 2009 (News Analysis)
    (Blog Post) A Supreme Court nomination, and the interest-group battle begins. The left was quiet Tuesday. Aside from commending the president’s pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, most ...
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