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...case involving four protesters who set a flag afire in front of the Seattle Post Office, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein found the Flag Protection Act invalid. Rothstein ruled, "Burning the flag as an expression of political dissent . . . does not jeopardize the freedom which we hold dear." Her decision is headed for the nine Justices: the flag law provides for expedited appeal to the Supreme Court, which could hear the case as early...
HOLY CROSS (86): Earl Weedon 6-0--12; Leon Dickerson 9-1--19; Scott Martzloff 1-1--3; Dwight Pernell 3-2--8; Lorn Davis 1-0--3; David Rothstein 0-0--0; Roger Breslin 0-0--0; Chris Fedina 2-1--5; Aaron Jordan 1-4--7; Kevin Kerwin 0-1--1; Derek Farkas 0-0--0; Bill Walker 5-0--11; Rick Mashburn 3-1--7; Frank Powell...
Aesthetics often dictates against hyphenation. Says a Washington lawyer representing small businesses who was born Joel Rothstein and is married to a woman named Wolfson: "Rothstein-Wolfson is four syllables and 16 letters. Names get massacred enough. Wolfson becomes Wilson. Rothstein becomes Rothson. You can imagine what people would have done with the two together." But could they come up with a workable union of surnames without resorting to hyphens? "It was important for our kid's last name to be the same as ours," says the lawyer. "Otherwise, one parent gets left out." The solution: Rothstein gave...
...weightier charges of lying to Congress, obstructing an investigation and shredding Government documents and be tried on only the less dramatic charges of accepting an illegal gift and diverting to personal use $4,300 that was supposed to go to the contras. Says Georgetown University Law Professor Paul Rothstein: "We had what promised to be a huge herd of trumpeting elephants, a trial with really dramatic testimony. Now it may dwindle down to a mouse squeak...
Judge Gesell could rule that many secret papers are not vital to North's defense. But even then, North and Sullivan would not necessarily lose. Constant interruptions by the prosecutors could confuse the jurors, and repeated refusals to allow secret documents into evidence could anger them. Says Professor Rothstein: "Whenever jurors . . . feel that a substantial amount of information is being kept from them, they are reluctant to find the defendant guilty. The more it can be made obvious that information is being shut off by the Government, the more Brendan Sullivan can claim, 'Ladies and gentlemen, they are putting blinders...