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...intriguing, if spotty, series about New York City courts. The dialogue can be as heavyhanded as, well, a Sidney Lumet picture. But Alan Arkin is powerful yet subtle as a liberal judge under attack for setting free a petty crook who then kills a cop. Worth putting on your docket for a probationary period...
Bush must know there's no hook big enough to yank Bubba entirely off the stage, but continuing to prosecute him would only give him a brighter spotlight. TV loves nothing more than someone famous in the docket. During a Clinton State of the Union speech, the networks kept a crawl on the bottom of the screen with updates on the O.J. jury deliberations. Clinton's trial would be a crawl on the bottom of the screen of the Bush presidency. And for what? Is there a negative about Clinton yet to be established, a pound of flesh left...
...These are specific facts which, if true, suggest that Berkowitz's grievance raised non-frivolous issues, supporting the alleged legal conclusion that the Docket Committee misapplied the 'clearly without merit' standard in dismissing his grievance," Brassard wrote in the decision...
...Atlanta federal appeals court rules against Bush, there's only one place to go if you want to take it further - onto the docket of Rehnquist et al. "Theoretically, to appeal a federal appeals court decision, you go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court," says Richard Scher, professor of political science at the University of Florida...
...ballots (as Bush has already attempted to do), the Supreme Court Justices could possibly become more attentive, and are far more likely to consider the case. If they do take the case, legal experts agree, they are likely to push it straight to the top of their docket. After all, even Supreme Court Justices want to know who the next president will...