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Supreme Court Highlights: A FindLaw Exclusive
Top News - Relevant Hearsay
Landmark Smokers' Trial Could Hit a Record Verdict
U.S. Lawyers Split on Partnerships with Nonlawyers
Discover Card Chief Testifies In Visa-MasterCard Antitrust Trial
New York Restaurants Abandon Male-only Tradition
Cyberlaw News - Download This!
GAO: Net Agency Has Legal Authority
Stalkers Find a New Tool
Criminal Law - Arresting Developments
Clinton Postpones Aug. 5 Execution
D.C. Police Reviewing Old Murder Cases
Weird Legal News - Eat My Justice!
Inmates Sue Over High Phone Costs
Bar Owner Wins Profanity Case
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Supreme Court Highlights: A FindLaw Exclusive
Oh yeah, almost forgot to include some highlights from the US Supreme
Court's most recent term. I guess I was just too distracted by the news
that Britney Spears getting engaged to Justin Timberlake.
Anyway, FindLaw has a lot of interesting stuff for you court watchers
and folks who collect Supreme Court Justice trading cards. (BTW, anyone
have a Scalia rookie card? I'll trade you three Ginsburg's for it.)
All of last terms published opinions are at:
http://supreme.findlaw.com/supreme_court/decisions/index.html
The briefs are at:
http://supreme.findlaw.com/supreme_court/caseindex.html
Constitutional law professor and former U.S. Supreme Court Clerk
Marci Hamilton analyzes the court's recent term:
http://legalnews.findlaw.com/transcripts/s/hamilton20000705.html
Now, for some highlights:
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US v. Dickerson
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The Supreme Court upheld the Miranda requirement for arrests.
Read the full text of the opinion at:
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/99-5525.html
We've got three commentaries on the case:
How Miranda Really Works
http://writ.findlaw.com/commentary/20000605_lazarus.html
Inside Dickerson V. United States
http://news.findlaw.com/commentary/otis/otis20000421.html
The Battle Between Congress and the Supreme Court over Miranda Warnings
http://news.findlaw.com/commentary/katyal/000418.html
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Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
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The case involved the Boy Scout's exclusion of gays. In a 5-4 vote, the
Supreme Court held that the Scouts had a First Amendment right to do so.
The full text of the opinion is at:
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/99-699.html
We also have two commentaries at:
Scout Loophole
http://writ.findlaw.com/commentary/20000630_yoshino.html
Open To All Boys? The Boy Scouts and Gay Rights
http://news.findlaw.com/Commentary/cole/cole20000426.html
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Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe
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The Supreme Court struck down public prayer before high school football
games as an unlawful establishment of religion. The opinion is at:
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/99-62.html
For commentaries on the case, got to:
School Prayer Quagmire
http://writ.findlaw.com/commentary/20000628_sekulow.html
School Prayer and Football
http://writ.findlaw.com/commentary/20000501_dellinger.html
I'm sure I left out some really profound and interesting cases, but hey,
space is limited here and do you really want to spend all day reading
E-mail from me?
-JT
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Up in Smoke
Landmark Smokers' Trial Could Hit a Record Verdict
Associated Press
The tobacco industry intentionally ruined millions of lives but keeps
stonewalling to delay any financial consequences, a smokers' attorney
said Monday in a final request for punitive damages. "This industry has
left a half-century trail of deceit which has decimated millions of
Americans," Stanley Rosenblatt said as closing arguments started for
punitive damages began in the landmark, 2-year-old case. "Never have so
few caused so much harm to so many for so long, and the day of reckoning
has arrived." Each side has two days to summarize the landmark
class-action case on behalf of 300,000 to 700,000 sick Florida smokers.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/07/10/bc.floridasmokers.ap/index.html
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Half Use Cappers
U.S. Lawyers Split on Partnerships with Nonlawyers
Reuters
The American Bar Association is gearing up to tackle one of the legal
profession's most divisive issues: whether to end a ban on partnerships
between lawyers and such nonlawyers as accountants and financial
planners.
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/s/20000707/n07352778.html
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Discovering the Possibilities
Discover Card Chief Testifies In Visa-MasterCard Antitrust Trial
Dow Jones
The president of Discover cards testified in the federal antitrust trial
against MasterCard and Visa that consumers and merchants could benefit
from lower prices if banks could issue credit cards on the Discover
network - a key point in the Justice Department's case. Still, David
Nelms, president of Discover Financial Services, a unit of Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter & Co. (MWD), wasn't the ideal government witness.
He also said the government's proposed remedy in the case could actually
hurt rather than help Discover, a small player in the $1.3-trillion U.S.
credit card market, and that he would prefer a much broader shake-up of
the U.S. credit-card industry.
[Copy and paste link into browser]
http://dowjones.wsj.com/i/law/SB962998033786270707-d-industry-c1-law.html
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Women Will Wait
New York Restaurants Abandon Male-Only Tradition
Reuters
The prominent Cipriani restaurant family has agreed to settle a closely
watched bias lawsuit by hiring women servers, breaking a tradition among
some fancy restaurants of hiring only males, New York's attorney general
said Thursday. The suit was being followed by upscale restaurateurs --
including those who run steakhouses and French and Italian
establishments -- who believe luxury service requires an all-male wait
staff.
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/s/20000706/rightsrestaurants.html
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Cyberlaw News - Download This!
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ICANN Too!
GAO: Net Agency Has Legal Authority
Associated Press
Congressional investigators on Friday gave their support to an
organization that sets policies on the domain names used to find Web
sites. In a report to Congress, the General Accounting Office concluded
that the U.S. Commerce Department had the legal authority to let the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers manage the names.
http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20000707/netagency.html
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Stalking Spam?
Stalkers Find a New Tool
SF Gate
For more than two years, Ann Terranova, a 43-year-old San Francisco
woman, was inundated by a blizzard of e-mail messages that threatened
her life and those of her two children. Terranova is one of a growing
number of victims of a crime that state and federal law enforcement
personnel have called ``cyberstalking'': the use of the Internet, e-mail
or other electronic communications to repeatedly threaten or harass
another person. And she is not alone.
[Copy and paste link into browser]
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000
/07/10/MN39633.DTL
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Criminal Law - Arresting Developments
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Stay the Course
Clinton Postpones Aug. 5 Execution
Associated Press
President Clinton is postponing the first federal execution since 1963
so the death row inmate can ask for clemency under guidelines being
updated by the government, the White House said Friday.
http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20000707/postpones.html
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Open-and-shut-and-opened-again
D.C. Police Reviewing Old Murder Cases
APB News
District police are reviewing hundreds of old homicide cases after
discovering that many appeared to have been closed prematurely, police
officials said today. Over the past month Metropolitan Police
Department investigators have reviewed 175 cases closed since 1988 and
are determining which ones will be reopened, said Executive Assistant
Police Chief Terrance Gainer.
http://news.findlaw.com/crime/s/20000707/dcpolice.html
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Weird Legal News - Eat My Justice!
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"We Know Larceny and This is Larceny!"
Inmates Sue Over High Phone Costs
Associated Press
Inmates in seven states are suing over the high cost of making phone
calls from prison. They are challenging the deals under which a state
or county government gets as much as 60 cents on the dollar from a
telephone company that is given exclusive rights to handle all calls
from behind bars.
http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20000707/phonecosts.html
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A Sign of the !@#$% Times
Bar Owner Wins Profanity Case
Denver Post
Leonard Carlo is f------ happy. Carlo is the unabashedly foul-mouthed
Colorado Springs bar owner who 10 months ago watched a Colorado liquor
enforcement agent come into his place "like a German storm trooper" and
confiscate 29 profane signs under a regulation that in part prohibits
profanity in bars. On Thursday, Carlo was in a much happier frame of
mind because the state has agreed not to enforce the profanity part of
the regulation.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0707c.htm
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