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...former court staffer, he will "have the clerk working on the opinion keep in touch with Powell's clerk" to make sure the emerging reasoning is acceptable to his colleague.--Brennan will even sacrifice some of his own views if necessary. Says University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar: "He doesn't want to be 100% principled and lose by one vote...
...there are whole areas where the expectation of privacy has been held essentially null and void, such as cars. "Fourth Amendment protection of autos has been largely eroded," said Yale Kamisar, law professor at the University of Michigan. Even passengers' purses can be searched without a warrant (although it's less clear whether a passenger's person can be, showing how tricky it is to thread this needle). And Kamisar argues that in general, "the whole trend has been the other way, toward saying that police surveillance is not a search." Giving a Charmin-like squeeze to a bus passenger...
...jabs (his favorite: Engler is the "product of miscegenation between barnyard animals and humans"), Fieger has spent his career making waves and lambasting virtually anyone who disagrees with him. "He's too quick. He's too unscrupulous, and he's too feisty," sniffs University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar, an expert on assisted suicide who has endured more than a few clashes with Fieger over his controversial client, Dr. Jack Kevorkian. "There are no rules. He'll do anything...
...laws against physician-assisted suicide now on the books in a majority of states may be on their way out. "In the past 30 days there have been more developments in this field than there have been in the previous 20 years," says University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar...
...seizing property. The decision, he says, means, for example, "that a mother who loans a car to a daughter is at risk of losing that car." Many legal experts agree. "It's hard to see why Tina Bennis should suffer because of the sins of her husband," says Yale Kamisar, a law professor at the University of Michigan. "The government seems to have an insatiable appetite in this area...