Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was born on March 11, 1936, in Trenton, New Jersey, to a Sicilian immigrant father and an Italian-American mother and grew up in Queens. He attended Catholic schools in New York as a child and teenager. Scalia then attended Georgetown University, spending his junior year at the University of Friborg in Switzerland, and graduated with an AB (Sorry, I don't know what that means) in 1957, first in his class. He also attended Harvard, serving as editor of the Law Review. Scalia graduated from Harvard in 1960. On September 10, 1960, Scalia married Maureen McCarthy and the two went to live in Cleveland, Ohio. In Cleveland, Scalia was admitted to the Ohio bar and worked for the law firm of Jones, Day, Cockley and Reavis until 1967. The Scalias then moved to Virginia and he was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1970. While in Virginia, Scalia taught law at Virginia Law School until 1974. In 1971, Scalia became general counsel for the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy and from 1972 to 1974 he served as president of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Scalia was later named assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. In 1977, Scalia returned to teaching after 6 months as a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC. He and his family returned to business and moved to Chicago, Illinois. In Chicago, Scalia taught at the University of Chicago Law School (he also served as a visiting professor of law at his alma mater, Georgetown University, as well as at Stanford University during this time) until President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the United States Court. Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1982. Scalia was sworn in on August 17 of that year. Four years after Scalia began working on the Court of Appeals, President Reagan selected him to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court. The Senate confirmed Reagan's nomination on September 17, and Scalia was sworn in on the 26th of that month. In 2000, Scalia issued decisions in two Supreme Court cases, Troxel v. Granville and California Democratic Party v. Jones. I will discuss the Troxel v. Granville case. Troxel v. Granville is in violation of “The Washington Rev.