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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
And William Rehnquestec calls ‘em as he sees them…
The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari today in the “Fantasy Baseball” case of CBC Distribution v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media. The suit is remarkable not only for the First Amendment and right to publicity issues that form the basis of the dispute, but because Justices John Paul Stevens, Samuel Alito and Stephen Breyer recused themselves due to their participation in a fantasy baseball league comprised of current and past court personnel. Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who also participate in the league, declined to disqualify themselves, exposing a non-ideological split in the court on the issue of when justices should step aside when conflicts appear.
...Neither Justice Scalia or his teammate Justice Ginsburg—who came of age in Brooklyn during the late 40s and 50s of the storied Dodgers, and who wrote the court’s opinion in U.S. v. Cleveland Indians—will step aside, however, despite their participation in the league and the law’s straightforward language. Scalia had famously failed to to recuse himself in a 2004 case involving his friend and hunting partner Vice President Dick Cheney. He wrote, “If it is reasonable to think that a Supreme Court Justice can be bought so cheap, the Nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined.”
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Posted: April 01, 2008 at 06:03 PM | 22 comment(s)
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Why do you expect this to be overturned?
It takes four Justices to grant certiorari. By itself that means little - it could mean that there are four justices who just want this settled. In practical terms, though, the Supremes are (generally) happy to let things sit if they agree with the result. Which could mean that the lower court gets affirmed 5-4, though the four they won't bring up the issue if they think they're going to lose 5-4. (This doesn't necessarily apply to circuit splits, but I don't know of any active splits here.)
I don't actually know the rule behind the recusal thing as to whether a Justice who plans on recusing him/herself can vote for cert or not.
It's certainly reasonable to expect MLBAM could get this overturned.
Hold on a minute, I'm on Yahoo putting Kazmir on the DL. You think Tom Gordon might get a few saves while Lidge is out?
Another conservative statement from the 21st century's William F. Buckley.
I put it up there with butter on popcorn, water after sex, and the invention of base ball.
That, and it was on a personal injury blog. This guy was very good. The one thing that should have caught the baseball scholars amongst us... "Siddhartha Finch"... Sidd Finch.
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