On History's Stage Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Fortune vol. 163 no. 1 (Jan. 2011), page 34-48.
Topik: Chief Justice; High cout; Solicitor general John Roberts Jr. ; Secondhand smoke; Amendment constitutional rights.
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In January1993principal deputy LLS. solicitor general John Roberts Jr. was arguing before theLILSL Supreme Court in a case brought by an inmate in a Nevada penitentiary. The prisoner, a nonsmoker who had been sharing a cell with a five-pack-a-day man, claimed that being subjected to so much secondhand smoke amounted to "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of his Eighth Amendment constitutional rights. The United States, represented by Roberts, was siding with Nevada in arguing that the inmate's plight did not rise to constitutional dimensions. "What about asbestos?" Justice Byron White asked Roberts, according to the official tape of the argument. Could the warden of a prison with decaying asbestos pipes force an inmate to inhale those toxins too? That would be different, Roberts said without hesitation. "When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?'"

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