[FINDLAW_NEWS] FindLaw Legal Grounds - Monday, August 9, 1999
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Criminal Law and Procedure Decisions of the 1998-99 Supreme Court Term
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Summary and analysis from Solomon L. Wisenberg of Ross, Dixon & Bell,
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Top News - Relevant Hearsay
INS Shifting Policy on Immigrant Detention
Drug Maker Will Appeal Jury's $23m Award in Fen-Phen Case
Cyberlaw News - Download This!
Internet Sale of Nazi Books in Germany Is Assailed
Disrupting Net access a cybercrime?
Entertainment Law - Legally Entertaining
Union imposes 'no-contract, no-work' order
Criminal Law - Arresting Developments
Societal changes said to cause U.S. crime drops
The abortion-crime rate puzzle
Weird Legal News - Eat My Justice!
Neo-Nazi March Canceled; Police Say City Should Sue
Man's attempt to get Pepsi jet fizzles
Proposal would give German prostitutes more rights
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Top News - Relevant Hearsay
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"You can go to Disneyland, but no more muggings"
INS Shifting Policy on Immigrant Detention
Washington Post
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has begun to review
thousands of cases of immigrants with criminal histories who have been
jailed pending deportation, and begun releasing some of those whom
officials decide are neither dangerous nor likely to flee future court
hearings.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/aug99/deport9.htm
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A Big Phat Verdict
Drug Maker Will Appeal Jury's $23m Award in Fen-Phen Case
Fox News
A Texas woman who suffered heart-valve damage won a $23 million jury
award Friday in the first-ever verdict involving the diet-drug
combination fen-phen. Debbie Lovett said her injury occurred after
taking the drugs for more than three months. She blamed American Home
Products and subsidiary Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. Jurors determined the
company was fully liable for the damages.
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/health/080699/fenphen.sml
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Tech-Deals - Internet Contracts - The Details
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Meg Whitman & eBay, Dr. Koop's deal with drkoop.com & more
Amazon, AOL, eBay, Excite, iVillage, Netscape, TheStreet.com, Yahoo!
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"No one bans books but us"
Internet Sale of Nazi Books in Germany Is Assailed
New York Times
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on Barnesandnoble.com and
Amazon.com to stop selling books like "Mein Kampf" to customers in
Germany alleging that the two largest online booksellers are violating
German laws against the distribution of hate literature.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/09mein.html
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"Who stole my bandwidth?"
Disrupting Net access a cybercrime?
ZDNet
A former system administrator of the University of Oklahoma has been
charged under the state's computer-crime statutes with slowing the
university's network to a crawl. The man faces a single count of
disrupting the university's Internet service in 1997, when hoards of
incoming students downloaded pirated software from servers that he had
allegedly set up on the university's network.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2310624,00.html
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Entertainment Law - Legally Entertaining
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AFTRA MIA at BET
Union imposes 'no-contract, no-work' order
Variety
Members of the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists voted
to impose a "no-contract, no-work" order against the cable program
"Comic View", produced by Black Entertainment Network. The order follows
the network's apparent refusal to bargain with AFTRA for a contract that
would cover "Comic View" and its performers, who are paid a one-time fee
of just $150, with no residuals, no limits on subsequent use of
material, and no expenses or benefits.
http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117750172
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Criminal Law - Arresting Developments
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It's the Demographics Stupid!
Societal changes said to cause U.S. crime drops
CNN
The drop in crime in the United States for which President Clinton has
taken credit is due more to long-term societal changes than government
anti-crime policy, according to a study released at the annual meeting
of the American Sociological Association Sunday.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/08/BC-CRIME-RATES.reut/
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Abortion: The Pre-Birth Penalty?
The abortion-crime rate puzzle
Chicago Tribune
Two widely respected scholars studying the causes of the declining U.S.
crime rate, one of the intriguing social puzzles of the decade, have
reached a provocative conclusion: legalizing abortion in the early 1970s
eliminated many of the potential criminals of the 1990s.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,2669,ART-32
656,FF.html
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Weird Legal News - Eat My Justice!
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"Not enough Nazis? We'll sue"
Neo-Nazi March Canceled; Police Say City Should Sue
ABC News
A neo-Nazi group abruptly canceled its planned rally Saturday in
Washington, D.C., even though the city closed a number of streets and
spent an estimated $1 million on police to protect them. The group had a
permit that would have allowed up to 300 supporters to march six blocks
along Pennsylvania Avenue but only four demonstrators showed up. The
police chief will ask the district's legal staff to sue the American
Nationalist Party, formerly the Knights of Freedom, to recover the costs
incurred for providing security for the march and several counter
protests.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/neonazis990707.html
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Pepsi Suit Shot Down
Man's attempt to get Pepsi jet fizzles
CNN
The fellow who sued Pepsi because it would not give him a Harrier
fighter jet after he accumulated 7 million "Pepsi Points" as part of a
soft drink promotion had his case, um, shot down in flames. The judge
ruled that the TV commercial that implied the man could get the jet was
an obvious overstatement. Well, obvious to everyone but the man and his
attorney, that is. See, a Harrier costs $23 million and acquiring 7
million "Pepsi points" only cost the man $700,000, thus the man should
have known that the "offer" was not. That, and gee, owning a modern
fighter jet is probably illegal too unless you're Larry Ellison.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/06/pepsi.jet.ap/
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Welfare for hookers
Proposal would give German prostitutes more rights
Fox News
The German government is considering providing pension and health
benefits to hookers. Currently prostitution is legal in Germany but is
classified as an "immoral" trade. Thus, hookers must pay taxes but get
no benefits (talk about getting "screwed"). Under the new proposal,
hookers would also be able to sue their non-paying clients and allow
them to advertise ("service with a smile"?).
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/wires2/0806/n_ap_0806_165.sml
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