From: Ellen K. 

The cases quoted paint a picture of an independent thinker.  So far this
looks good.   :)

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:47:29 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote in message :

>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR200510310022
7.html
>
>Samuel A. Alito Jr., 55, is a jurist in the mold of Justice Antonin Scalia.
>Nicknamed "Scalito," or "little Scalia," by some
lawyers, the federal
>appeals court judge is a frequent dissenter with a reputation for having one
>of the sharpest conservative minds in the country.
>
>Educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School, Alito was nominated by
>President George H.W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit
>in 1990. He had worked for the Justice Department in the Reagan
>administration and served as U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.
>
>In 1991, he was the lone dissenter in a 3rd Circuit decision striking down a
>Pennsylvania law's requirement that women tell their husbands before having
>an abortion. Alito also wrote a 1997 ruling that Jersey City officials did
>not violate the Constitution with a holiday display that included a creche,
>a menorah and secular symbols of the Christmas season.
>
>Three years ago Alito drew conflict-of-interest accusations after he upheld
>a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit against the Vanguard Group. Alito had
>hundreds of thousands of dollars invested with the mutual fund company at
>the time. He denied doing anything improper but recused himself from further
>involvement in the case.
>
>Key Documents:
>
>
>.. Shore Regional High School Board of Education v. P.S., on Behalf of P.S.
>(Aug. 20, 2004). Alito rules in favor of a complaint brought under the
>Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by a boy badly bullied by his
>classmates who was seeking legal relief but had been rebuffed by a U.S.
>District Court.
>
>
>.. Ronald A. Williams v. Price, Fisher (Sept. 9, 2003). Authors a majority
>opinion granting federal court review to an African American who could not
>get state courts to hear his claim of racial bias on the part of a juror in
>his trial.
>
>
>.. Sheridan v. Dupont (May 4, 1995). Dissents and argues that the Third
>Circuit had made it too easy for discrimination complaints to reach a jury
>trial.
>
>
>.. ACLU v. Schundler (Aug. 6, 1998). Holds that Jersey City, NJ's holiday
>display that included a creche and menorah did not violate the establishment
>clause of the First Amendment because it included secular symbols such as
>Frosty the Snowman.
>
>

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