07-20-2005, 03:37 PM
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Well, needless to say, the man is extremely conservative. Probably right up your alley, Lookout!
Here's a snip of some of the background on him put together by Alliance for Justice:
At Hogan & Hartson, Judge Roberts had a successful, high profile appellate practice. Some of his noteworthy cases included: Toyota Motor Mfg., Kentucky v. Williams,8 where, on behalf of Toyota, he successfully argued that the Americans with Disabilities Act did not require Toyota to provide a workplace accommodation to a worker who acquired carpal tunnel syndrome on the job;9 Fox Television Stations, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission,10 where, on behalf of Fox, he successfully argued that Fox was not subject to ownership rules designed to prevent monopolization; Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Mineta,11 where, appearing on behalf of the Associated General Contractors of America as amicus curiae, he argued that Congress failed to make sufficiently specific findings to justify an affirmative action program for Department of Transportation contractors;12 Rothe Dev. Corp. v. United States Dep’t of Def.,13 where, also on behalf of AGCA as amicus curiae, he successfully challenged as unconstitutional the Department of Defense’s affirmative action program granting bid preferences to small, minority-owned businesses;14 Bragg v. West Virginia Coal Association,15 where, on behalf of the National Mining Association as amicus curiae, he successfully used sovereign immunity doctrine to defeat a Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act16 challenge by affected West Virginia citizens to the state’s practice of issuing permits to mining companies to extract coal by blasting the tops off of mountains and depositing the debris in nearby valleys and streams...
More info can be found HERE
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