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Scalia

American  
[skuh-lee-uh] / skəˈli ə /

noun

  1. Antonin 1936–2016, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1986–2016.


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That was Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court justice, who had been a lawyer for big corporations fighting unions and resisting workplace regulations.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Scalia said his goal was to “remove barriers to the greatest engine of economic prosperity the world has ever known: the innovation, initiative, and drive of the American people.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Mr. White is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise and directs the Antonin Scalia Law School’s Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Dissenting in Massachusetts, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that from the court’s reasoning, “it follows that everything airborne, from Frisbees to flatulence, qualifies as an ‘air pollutant.’

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Soon afterwards the proposal was renewed by Deputy De Zerbi, and accepted by M. Beltrani Scalia, director-general of prisons.

From Criminal Sociology by Ferri, Enrico