News Notes—Justice Scalia

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is reported to have died in his sleep on Saturday, Feb. 13 while on a quail hunting trip to a remote luxury resort south of Marfa, Texas.

There was no autopsy. A justice of the peace declared Scalia had died of natural causes over the telephone, without seeing the body, after receiving a report from law enforcement, The Washington Post reported.

This is part of the February 19, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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