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Federal judges are not known for their patience with uncooperative witnesses and foot-dragging litigants. But never before, to anyone's recollection, has a member of the federal bench cited the entire Roman Catholic hierarchy for contempt of court. Last week in New York City, however, Federal Judge Robert L. Carter socked the Catholic bishops of the U.S. with an eye-popping fine of $100,000 a day until they comply with a court order. The bishops' sin: refusing the judge's instructions to give suing pro-choicers internal church documents on the church's antiabortion campaign. The critical underlying...
During the nearly five years since she took her place on the high bench, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has provided a reasonably dependable third vote for the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. In a number of crucial cases, however, O'Connor has begun to split from her usual allies, Chief Justice Warren Burger and William Rehnquist, and has sometimes cast the decisive vote that yields a liberal result. Says Michael McDonald, general counsel of the conservative American Legal Foundation: "I wonder if she is traveling the route blazed by Justice Blackmun." Harry Blackmun, who moved from a close...
...could be called minimalist or slipshod, depending on your distance from theater lingo. There's a blue curtain backdrop that came Federal Express through the local time warp from an elementary school somewhere in your past; there's a yellow bench with paint drippings down the side; and there's the now-classic red doghouse spoiled by the addition of green pine trees on the side...
Smith and Boss will join Hing on the bench in today's competition against Brown at Palmer Dixon. Usher decided to rotate his line-up because of the level of competition, as Yale blasted Brown 9-0 earlier in the season...
Rowning got into a bit of a stew in the top of the first, yielding a one-out single and walk, but worked out of trouble by retiring clean-up batter Lori Bench on a pop-up and getting Montouri on an inning-ending fly ball...