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According to Silverglate, this case has attracted attention because it is one of the few cases in which a student plaintiff has successfully challenged a university's disciplinary finding--even if only in one round of the appeals process. The courts originally ruled in favor of Brandeis, but Schaer successfully appealed...
Perhaps that explains why Carhart, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who was head of surgery at nearby Offutt Air Force Base, has wound up as the plaintiff in the abortion case scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court this week. It will be the first abortion case Justices have heard in eight years, and will test whether Nebraska and other states have the right to ban what has come to be called as partial-birth abortions. In the 1992 decision known as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Justices by a single vote reaffirmed Roe v. Wade, the landmark...
...this was only the beginning of the outrage. The plaintiff companies asked the federal judge to apply U.S. law to the two programmers, Matthew Skala of Canada and Eddie Jansson of Sweden, even though the court plainly had no jurisdiction over the defendants or their activities. They also sought orders from the U.S. judge requiring Internet service providers in Canada and Sweden to suppress Skala and Jansson's websites, even though those service providers did no business in Massachusetts or anywhere else in the U.S. and were also not subject to the jurisdiction of an American federal court...
PINT-SIZE PLAINTIFF...
Poor Erin Brockovich. a twice-divorced mother of three, she lacks money for her kids' day care and her own meal at a diner. Yet Erin (Julia Roberts) has the stash for an endless supply of trashy frocks, which she wears to job interviews, even to court as the plaintiff in a car-crash suit. They're the sort of clothes that Roberts' hooker in Pretty Woman would have rejected as way too gaudy...