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...case highlights a growing criticism of the Supreme Court of the past 25 years - that modern justices' proclivity for delivering splintered decisions muddies the rule of law. "The most interesting aspect of this case," opines TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders, "is that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw up its hands and basically told the Supreme Court, 'Please do your job and provide us guidance.'" Sanders notes that while the Supreme Court in the first half of the century traditionally filed single 10-page majority opinions, the current court typically files multiple 50-page opinions on each side of a decision...
...muckraking victims have increasingly moved away from alleging libel and defamation and toward attacking how a journalist goes about his work. "This was the first major case to make an end run and go after a news organization for what was essentially a libel claim," said TIME senior writer Alain Sanders. "And the court said no, you're not damaged because of trespass, you're damaged because of what they reported." Memo to supermarkets: When hiring someone to reprocess tainted meat, check references...
...lawyer, Dick Harpootlian, contends that the treatment she received was gender-specific, such as having her shirt set on fire so cadets could see her bra and having nail polish smeared on her body. "This is uncharted territory in gender discrimination law," says TIME senior reporter and legal analyst Alain Sanders, raising such questions as: Can the same action performed on a man and a woman be considered different under discrimination laws? And do military academies have the same standards as other colleges receiving funding from the federal government? This is one battle the Citadel wishes it didn?t have...