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WASHINGTON--Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg had almost $140,000 invested in a cable television corporation when he "personally handled" a Justice Department effort to have the court extend First Amendment protection to cable operators...
...administration source close to Ginsburg said yesterday that Ginsburg apparently did not raise the possibility of staying out of the case with Justice Department superiors or with agency ethics officers. He said Ginsburg discussed the situation with a subordinate...
...Supreme Court, on June 2, 1986, adopted Ginsburg's arguments in a decision that will reduce government regulation of cable operators...
...First Amendment rights case that had economic consequences to it...," said a former federal ethics official familiar with the cable case but not with Ginsburg's role in it. "If I'm holding cable stock, that is a good thing...
...Ginsburg, nominated by President Reagan to succeed retired Justice Lewis Powell on the court, apparently did not violate criminal conflict of interest laws because the company in which he invested was not a direct party to the case even though it could benefit from the ruling...