he delivered old-fashioned stem winders that could last for hours. i come from a cold state. cold reserves are plentiful. not so plentiful as they once were in my state but plentiful in this country. coal supplies 56% of all electricity in this country. see the lights up here? electricity. with his passing, the senate has lost its greatest living orator and one of the most interesting men to ever serve in the institution. he was born in 1917 as cornelius calvin sale junior. when his mother died of the flu a year later, his father entrusted his infant son to the care of his sister and her dirt poor coal mining husband. titus byrd eventually adopted his young nephew and named him robert byrd. he married his sweetheart when he was but 19 and began work as a butcher. he made his first foray into the world of politics after world war ii and eventually became the only west virginian to serve in both chambers of state legislature and both houses of the u.s. congress. in a career
plurality opinion. there was another case involving the cigarette labeling act and billboards. justice stevens wrote a very important concurring opinion. there were a couple of cases that struck down pre-emption involving pesticides in one case motors in another. justice stevens wrote those decisions in those cases. the last case was a very strong pro-preemption opinion on medical devices. justice stevens did not like it, but it occurred concurrend. this term comes along and he has the majority vote in these cases. if you are practitioner and i argued a couple of these cases, you have no idea what is going to happen with pre-emption on as you can figure out some way to persuade enough justices that they will outweigh justice stevens because he has written on every single one of these cases. i will make one final one final point. the obama administration, the president issued an executive order instructing agencies basically to go through all of their regulations and scrub
labeling or advertising. the statute said in order to have a uniform national policy with respect to the advertising or promotion of cigarette products, prohibitions or requirements by states on the advertising and promotion of cigarettes based upon smoking and health will be out, you know, they will be precluded. the altria versus goode case came up, someone is suing because they argued that the advertising of like cigarettes was misleading. people according to the allegation smoked the the cigarettes in such a way that they actually got potentially more tar and nicotine than the regular cigarettes so that the idea of advertising them as light was misleading bfment the tobacco companies said those suits are barred and the supreme court in a 5-4 decision written by justice stevens said no, they re not. that prohibition, the explicit preemption pro hi bigs goes to prohibitions based upon smoking and heather and what the lawsuit was based upon was the unfair practices act of th