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...million libel award to the resident king of the Las Vegas strip was overturned by a federal appeals court. A lower-court jury had decided that an ( October 1980 NBC broadcast falsely linked the singer's purchase of a casino to underworld assistance...
...surprisingly, the competition for Supreme Court clerkships is intense. Seven of the current Justices hire four clerks each; the other two hire three. Because the court acts like nine separate law offices, each Justice follows his or her own acceptance procedures. But among the virtual application requisites for all Justices are graduation from a top law school, stellar grades, a law-review editorship and, in recent years, an interim internship with a lower-court judge. "The key," advises one former clerk, "is to get to know someone on the faculty who was a clerk and let that person know...
...suffering. But her parents are suffering, for it is they who live with her living death. They are so convinced Nancy would not want to go on this way that they have asked the courts for authorization to remove her feeding tube and "let her go." A lower-court judge gave that permission, but the Missouri Supreme Court, affirming "the sanctity of life," reversed the ruling. Now the U.S. high court must consider whether the federal Constitution's liberty guarantees, and the privacy rights they imply, include a right to be starved to death for mercy's sake...
Unlike Georgia and many other states, however, Missouri has strong pro-life language in its statutes, which the state supreme court invoked in throwing out the lower-court decision. Though Cruzan had the right to refuse treatment, said the Missouri justices, her parents did not prove to the court that this is what she would have wanted. The "vague and unreliable" recollections by family and friends about Nancy's wishes were not deemed sufficient reason to stop feeding her. "The state's interest," wrote the judges, "is not in quality of life . . . Were quality of life at issue, all manner...
...Cipollone family and other would-be plaintiffs may find some encouragement in the latest decision. The lower-court ruling was rather narrow, declaring that the Liggett Group, which made the Chesterfield and L&M cigarettes Cipollone favored, violated a so-called express warranty that its products are safe. But the appeals court opened the way to a new trial on the broader question of whether the tobacco company was negligent in marketing cigarettes when it knew of medical evidence suggesting that smoking is hazardous...