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...didn't take long before O'Connor began confounding ideologues on the left and the right and bringing her considerable intellect to bear on the questions before her. She didn't just cast the final verdict--she helped shape important new law. For instance, it was O'Connor as much as Rehnquist, says University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard, who revived the doctrine of states' rights. The current court has knocked down more federal laws and upheld state sovereignty more often than any other in history, invalidating among other statutes a law that banned guns in school zones...
...People vs. Harvard Law, Andrew Peyton Thomas puts his alma mater on trial for sacrificing free speech on its campus in the name of political correctness. His readers shouldn’t be surprised if they come away from the book with a guilty verdict...
Eight months after former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson was convicted of manslaughter in the 2003 stabbing death of Cambridge resident Michael D. Colono, the judge in his trial threw out the verdict...
Because the SJC ruling does not apply retroactively, Quinlan was not forced to annul the verdict. But in April she voluntarily called a hearing to consider how the SJC ruling impacted her decisions during the Pring-Wilson trial...
...April court document, Quinlan wrote that “although the court views the evidence as legally sufficient to support the verdict returned by the jury, the integrity of the evidence has been rendered suspect as a result of the decision...