"Around the World on a Bicycle", by Thomas Stevens.

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Enter Scalia, writing for a divided majority that included Justices Thomas, Sotomayor, Stevens and Roberts.

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But the current court can be crudely split into three conservatives (Scalia, Thomas and Rehnquist), three liberals (Stevens, Ginsburg and Breyer) and three moderates (O'Connor, Souter and Kennedy).

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Mrs Sharkey told the jury of 10 women and five men that she and her daughter Bridget and her husband's half brother Eric Stevens had spent three weeks in the summer in Florida with Thomas junior before all flying home.

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The court did not split on political grounds: the four dissenters, for instance, included two conservative justices (William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas) and two moderate justices (Sandra Day O'Connor and John Paul Stevens).

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In an unusual line-up, two conservative justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, sided with two of the court's most liberal members, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens, to back the majority ruling.

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