Antonin Scalia Case Study

Antonin Scalia was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice member born on March 11, 1936, in Trenton, New Jersey. He was appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Scalia was the judge for the Case Martin case in 2001. He is not reluctant to express his opinion, even at the threat of offending others. Scalia believed that the court should have never been involved. Scalia ultimately disagrees with the court’s ruling. Scalia stated that “If one assumes, however, that the PGA TOUR has some legal obligation to play golf, then we Justices must confront what is indeed an awesome responsibility.” “Is someone riding around a golf course from shot to shot really a golfer? The answer, we learn, is yes. The Court ultimately concludes, and it will henceforth be the Law of the Land, that walking is not a “fundamental” aspect of golf.” He called it “foolish” for the Court to determine whether walking is a fundamental or crucial aspect of golf, and suggested that the Court should have declined to do so. Scalia thought that it shouldn’t have been brought to the court because it could trigger other people to take legal action on other sports organizations. He stated that he could envision parents of a …show more content…
The Court assumed that respondents are the “customer” of the PGA TOUR or of the golf courses on which it is played. The PGA tour is a professional sporting event, presented for the entertainment of a live and TV audience. However, Scalia did not agree. Scalia believed that this ruling was absurd because in comparison one wouldn’t consider a players participating in a baseball game at a MLB stadium to be customers. The Court states the ADA specifically recognizes golf courses as one of the covered places of public accommodation, as well as a gymnasium, bowling alley or other place of exercise or