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Still, legal experts say executives and others could end up getting bitten when they hit "Reply." Law professor Richard Painter of the University of Minnesota says e-mail will continue to be admitted as evidence and play an important role, particularly in white-collar prosecutions. "The fact of the matter is that people say things they shouldn't by e-mail," says Painter. "So as long as we continue to use e-mail, you are going to see it in cases...
Prominent defense attorney Stanley S. Arkin says that even though e-mails can be credible evidence, prosecutors have taken it too far. "It has led prosecutors to bring cases that might not have been brought otherwise," says Arkin. "The problem is, e-mails can often be confusing. They are brief and often written without a lot of thought." Arkin and others say the Bear Stearns hedge-fund case shows that jurors understand that. Without other evidence, prosecutors will have a hard time convincing jurors that what someone wrote in an e-mail is definitively what they believe...
White House officials often say they cannot share more information about their plan for Sudan because certain items are classified, Amjadi said...
...organizations, candidates for the Awesome Foundation fund must only complete a brief online application. The form requires applicants to describe their idea; they are encouraged to not feel any pressure to spin their proposal in a humanitarian light.“We want to give people the freedom to say hey, this is just something really awesome we want to do,” says trustee Tim R. Hwang ’08. “They don’t have to hide from us because they think their idea is just really interesting.”Though...
...He’s the most influential education leader of our time,” she said. “I’m here to hear what other people have to say about him in memoriam...