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...only woman, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, seemed to sway the court to rule that the strip search of a 13-year-old girl violated her Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search. "Sometimes one person counts for more than one vote on the court," says Yale Law School professor Akhil Amar...
...instead of arguing with Finkelman’s contention that Scott was not a citizen, Yale Law School professor Akhil R. Amar, one of Scott’s lawyers, conceded that point while directing his fire at the more outrageous claims made in Taney’s opinion...
Government prosecutors say they are worried that lawyers could become intermediaries who help communicate messages from their clients to other terrorists. Yale University law professor Akhil Amar says concern is understandable, "but the government should come up with its own honors list of lawyers who could meet security clearances." The military model, by which lawyers are picked from a slate of officers, "could be easily adapted to all these situations," Amar says...
...ENRON COLLAPSE With the Houston energy-trading company having gone from No. 7 on the FORTUNE 500 to Public Scandal No. 1, we present a complete guide to the Enron debacle. This week Molly Ivins writes on how the Enron effect has affected Houston, and Yale law professor Akhil Amar discusses why Dick Cheney should give in to congressional demands to see his Enron notes. Also, see a time line of the company's steady rise and spectacular fall, a guide to the players and continuing coverage of the case, at time.com/2002/enron...
...Akhil Reed Amar teaches constitutional law at Yale and is the author of The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction