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...clear things up, most believe it will fall to the Supreme Court to decide the permissible means of executing death row inmates by lethal injection. "The Morales case is an encouraging sign," says Tom Goldstein, a Washington, D.C., attorney who has just petitioned the Supreme Court to consider his appeal on behalf of Tennessee death-row client Abu Ali Abdur'Rahman. "The courts for so long have just given this issue the back of their hand, while the states have said, 'Everyone else is giving lethal injections this way so we can do it too,' even though they...
...Because of the conflicting legal decisions, as well as the growing body of credible scientific evidence that the drugs have the potential to cause considerable pain and suffering, Goldstein says "the Justices must realize that the question of national uniformity is open and every lethal injection is going to be challenged on the basis of the protocol used. So I think it has gotten more likely that they will feel the need to answer the questions once...
...done, retailers may have sold a record number of things and still not made a dime. Heavy discounting is a dicey strategy, sapping profits and exhausting shoppers. An expected sale of $18 billion in holiday gift cards promises to keep the malls full in January. But then, says Ken Goldstein, an economist at the Conference Board (which tracks the marketplace), "we're in for a long winter's night...
...been admitted to the U.S.—but it did mean the ruling wouldn’t be binding for similar cases in the future. In exchange, the Justice Department offered to offset part of the university’s legal fees. As a former presidential adviser told Goldstein, the administration wanted “maximum flexibility” on Guantánamo, “confident that they would do the right thing but not wanting to be forced by law to have...
...Brandt Goldstein, the author of “Storming the Court,” was noticeable from across the street. Sure, I had seen his picture on the dustcover of the book, but there was no mistaking that this tall, gaunt-faced man was a writer: Goldstein was wearing a black turtleneck and square rimmed glasses. He was the very image of a bohemian artiste. So it was hard to see the Yale Law School graduate as a full-time attorney at a Washington, DC law firm, where he worked until Oct. 1997. He left the profession to pursue writing...