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Robert Bennett, the President's implacable lawyer, has started admitting it in public. The Paula Jones suit against Bill Clinton is really going to trial. When it gets to federal court in Little Rock--the scheduled starting date is May 27--it may finally get down to facts. Or at least fact finding. But in the meantime it remains a battle of images. Jones has a new one, with softer makeup and less agitated hair. And the White House spent a few days last week making the most of a politically convenient controversy over news pictures of the Clintons waltzing...
...conclusion--as lawyers in training--as to the degree of proof they would need to act on behalf of a client, whether that action is writing a letter for your client (as Finberg has done), making an allegation, surviving a motion to dismiss in court or winning a law suit. Since Nesson's class is about the Laws of Evidence (federally-mandated regulations governing how courts may proceed, a.k.a. the basis for attorneys' cries of "objection"), the question then becomes, "What can we prove...
...regardless of the outcome of those two deliberations, the University community can begin to ask the substantive, moral questions that a deliberative democracy, as Thompson and Gutmann argue, should. We should wonder whether public hearings might not better suit a tenure debate than backroom politicking. Though the case is far from resolved, and we don't know whether there was a liberal-conservative deal at the departmental level, and we don't know whether there was behind-the-scenes manipulation of the ad hoc committee or the President, and we don't know whether Berkowitz was himself critiqued...
...suit for the occasion," Coles said, explaining that his three children told him that he could not wear his usual corduroys and sweaters to the White House ceremony...
Despite protests from Microsoft Corp. that he is biased, Professor of Law L. Lawrence Lessig will continue as a special master in the U.S. government's anti-trust suit against the software giant, a Microsoft spokesperson said yesterday...