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spec: Musically , the work rambles and natters . The acute adaptive states , when they persist , can become maladaptive traits . The " rare public address " by a member of the U.S. Supreme Court is n't so rare anymore.Just in the past few months , Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has invited television interrogator Mike Wallace into her chambers for a well-mannered chat . Then-Vice President Al Gore 's legal team involved the courts in the election by asking a state court to order a recount , Kennedy said.Legal scholars and the four dissenting justices have said the Supreme Court should have declined to jump into the case in the first place.In a decision made public on the evening of Dec. 12 , 2000 , the court said the recount violated the Constitution 's Equal Protection Clause because Florida counties were allowed to set their own standard for determining whether to count a vote . ) For their study , Fisman and Miguel assembled city data on more than 150,000 unpaid parking tickets - - a total value of $ 18 million - - issued to cars with diplomatic license plates between 1997 and 2002 . For their part , consumer and anti-smoking groups hope that the court will rule against Philip Morris - - and show thatpunitive-damage limits do not apply to especially reprehensible conduct.By the end of oral arguments yesterday , however , it seemed that the court was reluctant to rule broadly in either direction.Instead , several members of the court , including some who had supported its recent limits on punitive damages , suggested that the best way to handle the case would be to send it back to the Oregon Supreme Court for clarification of technical state law issues . When he came back to work , I said something to him . There are no librarians . " Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. spoke to his fellow members of the Federalist Society , a coalition of conservative lawyers and legal scholars who have gone from rebel outsiders to Washington insiders - - the group drew 1,500 people to its annual banquet and warranted appearances by administration leaders from Vice President Cheney on down.Roberts 's turn on the stage was the most complete , and it showed that his sure-footed performance in his confirmation hearings , where he left even senators opposed to his conservative philosophy aglow , was no fluke.He has a politician 's gift for appearing open while answering only the questions he wants to answer , along with an almost over-the-top humility about being , at 51 , the youngest chief justice since John Marshall , and he offers a reassuring middle ground between those worried about threats to judicial independence and those alarmed by activist judges.He provided a little something for everyone . BSP Chairman Georgi Parvanov did not rule out such a possibility , Standart noted . " Confirmation Wars offers no magic bullet , but it does underscore that Wittes 's name is one you should remember.David J. Garrow , a senior fellow at Homerton College , University of Cambridge , writes frequently about the Supreme Court . She is a must read .