Word: circuitous
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Brauneis clerked with Boston's First Circuit Appeals Court before attaining his current position as a clerk for Justice David H. Souter...
...earnings, while income from its 860 retail stores has declined 33% this year. Rather than help Sears' growth, most analysts believe, the financial units only subsidized its failure to compete during the retail revolution that produced such fierce, profit-taking rivals as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, the Gap and Circuit City. Furthermore, its urge to grow saddled Sears with a $38 billion debt that has left bond markets and shareholders increasingly restive...
...said he filed a notice of appeal Thursday in the Federal Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, and expects the appeal to be heard sometime this winter...
...that weren't enough, USA Today runs King's weekly column of plugs and random thoughts (some quite a bit more random than others). And last week a new King book -- When You're from Brooklyn, Everything Else Is Tokyo -- was published by Little, Brown. On the lecture circuit, King pulls in $35,000 an appearance, and his total annual income is well over $2 million. Says King: "I'm 58 years old, and I'm having the best year of my life...
Louisiana's stringent law prohibiting most abortions would send doctors who perform them illegally to jail for up to 10 years. Last week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans struck down the law. Louisiana's attorney general, Richard Ieyoub, conceded that Louisiana "will have some difficulty" in defending its law if the state decides to appeal it to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a Pennsylvania case in June, the Supreme Court ruled out any restrictions that placed an "undue burden" on a woman seeking an abortion...