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By Mitch Artman | April 18, 2002
THE PASTIt started in 1670, when William Penn was tried for preaching a Quaker sermon, despite the Anglican Church being the only legal church in English territory, which
By Paul Coggins | April 22, 2002
The U.S. Department of Justice is floating a test balloon to gauge public reaction to a proposal that would allow local police departments to enforce federal immigration laws. Don't sett
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By Richard Zitrin and Carol M. Langford | March 26, 1999
Eight years ago this month, Bill Lockyer, then the powerful chairman of the state Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced a "sunshine in litigation" bill. The legislation provided "as a matter of pu
By Russell G. Pearce | August 13, 2001
For most of American history, the work of the big-business lawyer was understood as public service. Louis Brandeis' "people's lawyer," the guardian of the common good, was a business lawyer.
By Evan L. Goldman | March 2, 2007
One of the greatest summations of all time occurred not in a real courtroom, but on a Hollywood sound stage for "To Kill a Mockingbird." Yet, in his closing argument on behalf of an innocent A
By Ted Pulliam | November 15, 2001
"Final Freedom" by Michael Vorenberg(Cambridge University Press;320 pages; $29.95)The infrequently cited 13th Amendment seems to be the wallflower of the Civil War
By Leslie A. Brueckner and Leslie A. Bailey | May 8, 2006
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced in a preamble to its new drug labeling rules that, in its view, failure to warn and some other tort claims against drug manufacturers
By Bruce Fein | May 14, 2007
The Internet is to modern America what the post office was to the original United States. But whereas a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html" target=
By Tom Klaff and Bill McComas | May 22, 2006
In the Duke University lacrosse team drama, lawyers began trying the evidence in the media the moment it surfaced. The allegation that players had raped a local woman at a party was quickly fo
January 19, 2007
We, together with many members of the bar, were outraged to read that Charles Stimson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs in the Department of Defense, and a lawyer, gave a radio
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