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...Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether or not the Fourth Amendment -- which protects the right to privacy -- also prevents schools from conducting drug tests on students. The lawsuit was brought in Oregon against a school district which tossed the plaintiff, James Acton, off the football team in 1991 after he refused a drug test. A lower court ruled against the student but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision. The district's appeal relies on a 1985 Supreme Court ruling that states that the need to maintain order in public schools can justify limits on privacy...
...Plantiff's libel action is based on the allegation that Defendant changed the 'code name' on its personal computer from 'Carl Sagan' to 'Butt-Head Astronomer' after Plaintiff had requested that Defendant cease use of Plaintiff's name ... There can be no question that the use of the figurative term 'Butt-Head' negates the impression that Defendant was seriously implying an assertion of fact. It strains reason to conclude that Defendant was attempting to criticize Plaintiff's reputation or competency as an astronomer. One does not seriously attack the expertise of a scientist using the undefined phrase 'butt-head.' Thus...
...plaintiff's motion filed in June states that during depositions in early stages of the case, Harvard's witnesses maintained that the threshold floor was installed in 1931. The floor, these witnesses said, was not slippery but rather coarse and abrasive...
Harvard also disputed the claim that the defendant didn't have a chance to examine the threshold. A motion filed by the University stated that plaintiff took photographs of the threshold prior to the resurfacing...
...judge has denied the plaintiff's motion for further discovery, and a motion for further discovery and a motion for reconsideration is now pending...