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...Leonard Bias died of cocaine intoxication. This interrupted normal electrical control of his heartbeat, which resulted in sudden onset of seizures and cardiac arrest. The toxicological study we did in addition to the cocaine analysis showed no alcohol or other drugs in his body at the time of his death...
With that unequivocal statement, the Maryland medical examiner, Dr. John Smialek, last week ended some of the widespread speculation about the shocking death of the University of Maryland basketball star. Bias, 22, who had just been drafted by the Boston Celtics, had been in perfect health. He did not, as rumored, have the genetic disorder Marfan's syndrome. Nor did he suffer from any previously undetected defect in his heart or circulatory system. Bias had simply taken some cocaine--perhaps for the first time--and, as a direct result, died...
...impact of his death was apparently not lost on America's 5 million or so regular cocaine users. Even as Bias was being eulogized in services at the university chapel and applauded by 11,000 people who gathered to honor him at the Cole Field House, where he had performed so spectacularly on the court, cocaine hot lines around the country were clogged by anxious callers. Their questions were echoed across the U.S.: Could the nation's "recreational drug" of choice really be lethal, even on first use? How could a taste of cocaine kill a world-class athlete...
...discrimination case. Burger was the author of Griggs vs. Duke Power Co., a 1971 decision holding that employment tests that have the effect of barring blacks are unconstitutional. Scalia, by contrast, has argued that blacks must show direct evidence that the employer was motivated by racial bias against them...
Free Speech. Although the Burger Court has often been accused by editorial writers of an antipress bias, the Rehnquist Court may make the pundits positively nostalgic. Burger wrote a number of pro-press decisions during his tenure. In the 1980 case of Richmond Newspapers Inc. vs. Virginia, for instance, Burger held that under the First Amendment the press and the public have the right to attend most criminal trials. Rehnquist dissented, as he usually does in cases protecting press freedom...