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...Sanders, of eliminating other forms of expression: for example, documentaries about bullfights or cockfights, or movies in which cruelty to animals is simulated for legitimate purposes but not actually carried out. Sanders doubts this case is Supreme Court material, but even if it did end up on the Justices' docket, there?s little chance of a ruling against free speech. "The First Amendment," he says, "is the most closely guarded Amendment in the Supreme Court...
Does gender-based violence affect interstate commerce? Sounds like a silly question, but it?s at the heart of a rape case that just made the Supreme Court docket. During its 1999-2000 session, the Court will decide the constitutionality of provisions in the Violence Against Women Act that allow women who are attacked or raped to sue their attackers in Federal civil court. The case under consideration was brought by a Virginia Tech student who charges that two members of the football team raped her during her freshman year. So why would a case like this fall under...
...Innocence Project is operating in a shrinking field. The vast majority of its docket consists of old cases, prosecuted when DNA testing was still rare. Now that law enforcement is integrating DNA into its investigative procedures (see box), there should be fewer people convicted despite exonerating biological evidence. But the broader problem addressed by the project--that innocent people are going to jail--shows no sign of ending. Why is the criminal-justice system making so many mistakes...
...unlikely that many of the survivors will come from the current crop of Internet stocks making their debuts as IPOs. Now on the docket are many also-rans, third or fourth to market with second-tier managements. Take PCQuote.com which filed last Wednesday to raise $100 million. It competes in the already jammed area of financial data, which includes TheStreet.com Reuters and others. "How new is that? Let's go watch paint dry," sniffs David Menlow of the research firm IPO Financial Network...
...June 25, 1864 issue of the Cambridge Chronicle records the week's meeting of the Cambridge City Council, with the full listing of the minutes. The property on 31-33 Church St. was on the docket: "It's the intent also to erect on the lot next to the engine house, a brick building for the housing of the chief of police and the remainder of the police department in that section of the city...