Associated Press - November 20, 2009 9:15 PM ET

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A U.S. Supreme Court justice delivered a special speech at an annual Omaha event.

Justice Antonin (AN'-toh-nihn) Scalia (skuh-LEE'-uh) delivered the Koley Address at the Creighton University School of Law annual dinner on Friday.

The Koley Lecture Series is named for James Koley, a 1954 graduate of Creighton University's School of law.

More than 500 people, including students and alumni, were in attendance at the event held at the Qwest Center.

Scalia was nominated to the high court by President Ronald Reagan and took his seat as an associate justice in 1986.

He earned his law degree from Harvard Law School. He also holds bachelor's degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

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