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...Chief? With elections months away, Jacob Zuma, leader of South Africa's ruling party, may face a choice between the campaign trail and the courtroom. An appellate court has revived charges against him of corruption, fraud and racketeering. While Zuma is still the heavily favored presidential candidate, the case could complicate his run and any ensuing first term...
Following that, Morgan opened the ACLU's Atlanta-based Southern Regional Office, which continues today as one of the nation's foremost defenders of voting rights. He notably argued Reynolds v. Sims, a landmark Supreme Court case that ended the rural South's dominance in state politics, and his office challenged the exclusion of blacks from juries and represented black death-row inmates convicted by all-white panels. "The jury box and the ballot box," he said, "are the only places where citizens can tell their government what to do and the government has to listen...
Torti's lawyer Steinberg says he and his client aren't counting on the California high court's rehearing the case. Says Steinberg: "It's certainly not common that the supreme court reverses its decision." If the court decides to let its judgment stand, he says, the civil suit will most likely commence in August or September. Steinberg's defense strategy will focus then on whether his client acted reasonably under the circumstances and whether Van Horn's injuries were caused by the accident itself or occured when she was moved...
...Paterson, facing a $15 billion budget shortfall, wants to cut 55% of state funding to institutions like the Bronx Zoo in 2009 and 100% of state funding in 2010. According to Calvelli, state dollars make up a small percentage of institution budgets - less than 10% in the case of the Bronx Zoo - but any cuts will only add to anticipated reductions in endowments and other public funding. If the state pulls financing, Calvelli says, service and program cuts as well as (human) layoffs are possible...
...stimulus package the new Administration will seek after Obama takes office on Jan. 20. But associates say he has been emphatic about one thing: the Administration should err on the high side. The package should be big. How big is big? "Big enough," he has told friends. In this case, he believes, "prudence requires scale...