September 29, 2006

Business tops Supreme Court docket

Stephen Calkin, Wayne State law professor and former Trade Commission attorney, discusses the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court following last year's conservative bench appointments, especially that of Chief Justice John Roberts, who was a corporate attorney with the international law firm Hogan and Hartson. "Very few if any of them are real liberals," says Calkin. "It's clear they're all thoughtful conservatives. They won't be issuing populist kinds of opinions." After a more than decade-long hiatus, business cases - and especially anti-trust cases - are a high priority for the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court session.

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