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Article: U.S. Supreme Court looks at justice European-style
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- July 8, 1998
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JEFFREY ULBRICH Associated Press Writer
AP Online
07-08-1998
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) _ As the world gets smaller, the U.S. Supreme Court will be drawing on judgments from other countries in its own deliberations, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said Wednesday.
O'Connor is heading a team of American justices who will be talking with European judges and court officials during a 10-day, four-country visit.
The justices have discovered that the issues facing European courts are often the same ones U.S. judges face, said Justice Stephen Breyer, a member of the four-judge Supreme Court delegation.
``Why should people in Brussels be telling us what to do?'' he asked. ``That sounds like ...