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- ANTONIN SCALIA pens his irascible, shoot-from-the-hip dissents “for law students”, but apparently judges sometimes read them too. One wonders whether the longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court is piqued or pleased by this pronouncement from Robert Shelby, a federal judge in Utah, who last month struck down as unconstitutional that state’s ban on same-sex marriage:
The court agrees with Justice Scalia’s interpretation of Windsor and finds that the important federalism concerns at issue here are nevertheless insufficient to save a state-law prohibition that denies the Plaintiffs their rights to due process and equal protection under the law.