Sonia Sotomayor: Not A Squishy, Wild-Eyed Commie, After All [Jurisprudence]

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Sonia Sotomayor: Not A Squishy, Wild-Eyed Commie, After All [Jurisprudence]

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"Some say," Barack Obama offered this morning, by way of introducing his Supreme Court nominee, "Judge Sotomayor saved baseball." True, at least to the extent that Sonia Sotomayor saved baseball from itself. What Obama didn't say: Sotomayor totally screwed over Maurice Clarett . First, ...

sports.yahoo.com - 5/27/2009

Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor an unlikely baseball hero

— sports.yahoo.com — Do Supreme Court robes come in pinstripes? As you've no doubt heard by now, Sonia Sotomayor —... President Obama's new pick for the country's top court — grew up in a Bronx housing project just three miles from Yankee Stadium. ... (more) Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor an unlikely baseball hero

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Sotomayor, Baseball

— nytimes.com — Judge Sonia Sotomayor ended a baseball strike in 1995.... (more) Sotomayor, Baseball

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BASEBALL: Woman in the News; Strike-Zone Arbitrator -- Sonia Sotomayor - The New York Times

— nytimes.com — In her two and a half years on the bench, United States District Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor... has earned a reputation as a sharp, outspoken and fearless jurist, someone who does not let powerful interests bully, rush or cow her into a decision. She ... (more) BASEBALL: Woman in the News; Strike-Zone Arbitrator -- ...

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Sports and Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Cont'd
Dan Shanoff — Tommy Craggs with another must-read: Evaluating new SCOTU nominee Sonia Sotomayor's sports-related rulings. Craggs' own ruling: MLB strike? Good. NFL draft age-limit rules? Bad. ...

Links of the Day 5/27/09
The Victoria Times — Good for you, Vikings fans. Jonathan Papelbon continues to be a tool. That said, I hope we aren't in a position to face him during today's game. This new judge lady has quite the history with the sports world. ...

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baseballmusings.com 5/26/2009 — It looks like President Obama will nominate Sonia Sotomayor to the supreme court . If she is confirmed, I wonder if she’ll be willing to re-visit the Major League Baseball’s anti-trust exemption, given her history with the sport. The Supreme Court made a poor decision in the case ...

Baseball’s Savior tapped for Supreme Court
hardballtimes.com 5/26/2009 — No, not Cal Ripken : President Barack Obama tapped federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, officials said, making her the first Hispanic in history picked to wear the robes of a justice. If confirmed by the Senate, Sotomayor, 54, would succeed retiring ...

Obama Chooses ‘Savior of Baseball’ in Sotomayor Pick
cantstopthebleeding.com 5/26/2009 — [ What Does a Guy in that Hat Know About Baseball Anyway? ] While I don’t have much of an opinion yet on SCOTUS nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor (outside of my knee-jerk rubber stamp approval for Obama), of note to baseball fans is the Obama Administration touting her as the judge who ...

Supreme Court Nominee Ended Baseball’s Strike
thebiglead.com 5/27/2009 — Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to succeed David Souter as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Back in 1995, she was the woman who saved baseball before Cal Ripken and Mark McGwire’s dingers got around to it. Sotomayor was the ...

Judge Sotomayor's Sports Law Opinions
sports-law.blogspot.com 5/28/2009 — It's official: as Professor cummings predicted earlier this month , the President will nominate Second Circuit Judge and die-hard Yankees fan Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court . Perhaps more than any Supreme Court nominee in history, Judge ...

Local Cabbie Unimpressed By Sonia Sotomayor — Bugs & Cranks

I’m far from a legal scholar, so much of the speculation about who was going to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter was over my head. I was pleasantly surprised yesterday morning however, to hear that President Obama had nominated Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the position. You ...

Sotomayor Ruled On NFL Case — The National Football Post » Hot News and Rumors

President Obama today announced his nomination of U.S.Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Obama noted that she presided over “a matter of enormous concern to many Americans including me … the baseball strike of 1994-1995…..Some say that Judge ...

Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor Has Made Her Mark on NFL, MLB — FanHouse

by Dan Graziano When the news hit this morning that President Barack Obama was about to nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, sports fans around the country probably thought, "Why do I know that name?" The answer is because Sotomayor has gained a little bit of fame over the past ...

New Supreme Court Nominee — I Dislike Your Favorite Team

The Obama Administration issued talking points about the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to become the new Supreme Court Justice are quite good. Presumably, Obama and his staff have been working on them for quite awhile.I like the way they have not just fought off the whisper campaign. ...

Jeffrey Rosen can suck it — Straight Flushing

Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor to Supreme Court. This is of course a great moment for liberals, women, hispanics, and anyone who likes to see The New Republic get embarrassed . The confirmation hearings should be fun. Get to watch the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee as they come up with ...

Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor an unlikely baseball hero — Big League Stew

Do Supreme Court robes come in pinstripes? As you've no doubt heard by now, Sonia Sotomayor — President Obama's new pick for the country's top court — grew up in a Bronx housing project just three miles from Yankee Stadium. She has admitted to attending an occasional ...

The Justice is a YF — YFSF

Bronx-born Sonia Sotomayor, lifelong Yankee fan, is President Obama's nominee to the SCOTUS. Sotomayor was the judge who ended the 1994-1995 baseball strike . Play ball!

Obama Chooses Sotomayor for Supreme Court Nominee — BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog

President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his first appointment to the court, officials said Tuesday, and has scheduled an announcement for 10:15 a.m. at the White House. [...] In what may be her best-known ruling, Judge ...

Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama, baseball and me — Sports stories from Newsday

Sonia Sotomayor reportedly is Barack Obama's choice for the open Supreme Court spot. Check it out here . Ms. Sotomayor and I go way back. I was in her courtroom on March 31, 1995, when she kick-started the baseball season with a ruling for the players over the owners. At the time I was ...

As judge, Sotomayor ended baseball strike of '94 — Latest Sporting News Articles for MLB
NEW YORK (AP) -- Long before she was a Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor was an umpire between ...

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor no stranger to sports — ESPN.com - MLB
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, nominated Tuesday by President Barack Obama to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat, is no stranger to the sports world.