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...allow anyone who attended the trial to testify during its criminal phase. Though a federal appeals court upheld Matsch?s view that seeing the defendants in court could taint a victim's testimony, Congress effectively overrode the court by allowing victims to watch the trial on a closed-circuit television in Oklahoma City, and then testify if they wished during the punishment phase. Seeking to avoid a lengthy court fight that would have delayed the start of McVeigh's trial, Matsch bowed to Congress, but he still believes the law allows him to restrict any witness he thinks has been...
Hopwood vs. Texas, Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals...
Last year, however, the law school had 40 black students. The drop comes a little over a year after the fifth circuit of the Federal Court of Appeals prohibited the racial preferences Texas used in admission...
...lost. That, for Global Casino, was the good news. The bad news was that "Cunningham" was employed by the office of Missouri attorney general Jeremiah ("Jay") Nixon as part of a sting operation. Last Friday, in the first case ever against an active Internet gambling concern, a federal-circuit-court judge granted Nixon's request for a permanent injunction barring Global Casino's parent company, Interactive Gaming & Communications (I.G.C.) of Blue Bell, Pa., from taking any more bets from Missouri residents...
...shook hands with his attorney, Stephen Jones. He checked his watch, and then three federal marshals escorted the man convicted of the worst terrorist act ever on U.S. soil out of the building. Some 700 miles from the courtroom, where survivors and families watched the verdict on a closed-circuit video transmission at the Federal Aviation Building in Oklahoma City, cheers erupted as the verdict was announced. "It was a great relief, an emotional breakthrough," one said. But though the verdict brings closure, it's cold comfort to many who lost family members in the blast. "You heard most...