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Exxon Mobil

May 12, 2008

Stock holdings force justices to skip a case

“This decision is particularly disturbing because the law was specifically designed to cure the problem of justices being reluctant to sell certain stocks because of capital gains consequences.”

For one day at least, a Supreme Court case came down to the justices' investment ideas, not their legal philosophies. via South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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