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The Annotated Bobblehead Justice Stephen Breyer

"[T]he Constitution's Due Process Clause forbids a State to use a punitive damages award to punish a defendant for injury that it inflicts upon nonparties or those whom they directly represent ...." Philip Morris USA v. Williams, 549 U.S. 346, 353 (2007).

"Amicus briefs present other instances in which individuals arrested for minor offenses have been subjected to the humiliations of a visual strip search.... They include individuals detained for such infractions as...riding a bicycle without an audible bell." Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington, 132 S.Ct. 1510, 1527 (2012) (dissenting).

"The Fourth Amendment does not treat a motorist's car as his castle." Illinois v. Lidster, 540 U.S. 419, 424 (2004).

"The Fourth Amendment does not treat a motorist's car as his castle." Illinois v. Lidster, 540 U.S. 419, 424 (2004).

"[T]he Department would issue a permit measuring grazing privileges in terms of 'animal unit months' (AUMs), i.e., the right to obtain the forage needed to sustain one cow (or five sheep) for one month.... [R]egulations in effect from 1938 to the present day made clear that the Department retained the power to modify, fail to renew, or cancel a permit or lease for various reasons." Public Lands Council v. Babbitt, 529 U.S. 728, 735 (2000).

Stephen Breyer, 1994-

Born in San Francisco in 1938, Stephen Breyer was raised by a lawyer and an active member of the San Francisco Democratic Party and League of Women Voters. He chose to attend Stanford University rather than Harvard and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1959. Following graduation, Breyer attended Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship where he studied philosophy, politics, and economics. He went to Harvard Law School and graduated magna cum laude in 1964. Breyer was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, a professor of law at Harvard, and an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation before President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1980. President Bill Clinton considered him for the Supreme Court in 1993 though Breyer had just broken some ribs and punctured a lung in a bike accident. The following year, when Justice Henry Blackmun retired, President Clinton reconsidered and nominated him for the Court. He was confirmed by the Senate, 87-9