Locker-Room Law

November, 1995

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once defined privacy as ''the right to be let alone.'' It is a concept fundamental to the American experience.Until now. Justice Antonin Scalia believes a person gives up that right if someone has seen him or her naked.It would seem that in the inner sanctum of the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia dreams of locker rooms. not law. He recalls with a Norman Rockwell eye the rites of passage of high school athletes, those wonderful years of towel-snapping vigor, of...