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...decision is a stunning rebuke for prosecutors and the state Legislature. Wilson, now 21, was convicted of aggravated child molestation for having oral sex with a 15-year-old classmate in 2003. Howard J. Bashman, author of the widely-regarded How Appealing legal blog and one of America's leading appellate lawyers, told TIME the order for Wilson's release was "very, very unusual." But Bashman added that Wilson's sentence was so outrageous that the most surprising thing about the 4-3 ruling was that it was so close...
...would violate the Solomon Amendment if it led to less access for military recruiters.Observers said they were not surprised that the court to dismiss the Harvard professors’ statutory argument. Both the government and FAIR opposed the professors’ interpretation during oral arguments in December.Howard J. Bashman, a Pennsylvania attorney who filed a brief supporting the government’s position, said that “the court typically allows the parties to decide the issues that are presented in the appeal, and would not allow those in amicus to interject issues into the case...
Clement’s concession would bolster the government’s contention that recruiters are not demanding special treatment on law school campuses, according to Howard J. Bashman, an attorney who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case siding with Rumsfeld...
...think that the justices who are concerned about the law schools’ expression being limited may be put at ease by the way the government answered the jeering question,” Bashman said...
...basis for siding in our favor.”Experts weren’t surprised that FAIR spurned the statutory argument, since Congress could just amend the law again. A Philadelphia attorney who had filed a brief supporting the government’s case, Howard J. Bashman, noted that FAIR had prevailed in the Third Circuit Court by arguing on free-speech, not statutory, grounds. Laurence H. Tribe ‘62, the Harvard professor who organized the filing of his colleagues’ friend-of-the-court brief, said their statutory argument appeared to be doomed yesterday...