Justice Alito’s finances explain his recusals

Published July 18, 2013 5:25pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Samuel Alito bowed out of roughly six dozen matters that came before the Supreme Court in the past 10 months with no explanation. Alito’s latest report of his finances clears up the mystery.

The justice and his wife, Martha Ann, inherited dozens of stocks when her father, Bobby Gene Bomgardner, died last year. Many of the cases in which Alito did not take part involved companies in which the Alitos now own shares.

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