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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Supreme Court opinions today.

The best — and most exciting presentation, beginning at 10 ET — is the SCOTUSblog live-blog.

UPDATE: The Court limits the punitive damages in the Exxon case to $507.5 million. (The court below had awarded $2.5 billion). In Kennedy v. Louisiana, the Court rejects the death penalty for child rape (where "the defendants' acts were not intended to cause death").

AND: Here's the Kennedy opinion (PDF). (It's doubly "the Kennedy opinion" in that it's the name of the case and of the Justice writing it.) It's a 5-4 decision with a Roberts an Alito dissent, joined (predictably) by Scalia, Thomas, and Alito Roberts.

AND: Move the discussion of Kennedy to this new post.

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