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Presents statistics on the voting of justices of the United States Supreme Court. Opinions of the Supreme Court; Dissenting votes; Voting pattern in nonunanimous cases; Disposition of cases.

Highlights several cases decided by the United States Supreme Court. Cases dealing with constitutional law; Cases dealing with federal jurisdiction and procedure; Cases dealing with federal statutes and regulations; Examination on the reasoning and views of the justices in deciding the cases; Implications of the rulings.

Focuses on a court ruling in the United States that holds that prior class action tolled the statute of limitations for new class action claim. Details on the case Catholic Social Services versus the Immigration and Naturalization Service; Justification for the court ruling.

Discusses a court ruling in the United State that allows persecuted homosexual Mexican man with a female sexual identity to qualify for asylum. Details on the case Hernandez-Montiel versus the Immigration and Naturalization Service; Justification for the court ruling; Implications of the case.

Deals with the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling on the case Kaufman versus i-Stat Corp. in which the fraud-on-the-market doctrine was rejected. Details on the case; Reason behind the rejection of the doctrine.

Analyzes the decision of the United States Sixth Circuit court on the case Doris Simmons-Harris versus Zelman regarding educational voucher program in Cleveland, Ohio. Facts of the case; Basis of the court's decision.

Presents the ruling of the United States Seventh Circuit court on MCI Telecommunications Corp. versus Illinois Bell Telephone Co. case, which deals with state sovereign immunity. Details on the case; Information on the Section 252 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; Ruling of the district court.

Focuses on the free speech case of Junger versus Daley in the United States Sixth Circuit. Details on the case; Ruling of the court; Information on the court's analysis of the case.

Examines the ruling of the United States Ninth Circuit court on the copyright fair use case of Worldwide Church of God versus Philadelphia Church of God. Details on the case; Decision of the court on the case; Information on the most serious error in the court's analysis of the case.

Focuses on the civil case Rutstein versus Avis Rent-A-Car Systems of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Decision of the court; Details on the case; Requirements to qualify for class certification.

Presents statistics which the judgments of the United States Supreme Court in the nineties. Final disposition cases; Method of disposition; Actions of individual justices.

Focuses on several cases related to the federal jurisdiction and procedure of the United States. Information on the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996; Ruling of the Supreme Court on the Williams versus Taylor case; Details on the case, Friends of the Earth Inc. versus Laidlaw Environmental Services.

Explains how and why United States federal trial judges came to reorient the processes of judging and to redefine their jobs by adding the management and settlement of civil cases to their judicial role. Judicial transformation of the daily practices of judging; Alterations in the content and size of the federal judiciary's docket; Programmatic goals for the Article III judiciary.

In this Commentary, Mr. Dellinger defines and analyzes a heretofore unrecognized class of United States Supreme Court derisions: those in which a photograph, map, replica, or reproduction is attached to a Justice's opinion. Such attachments, all relying on visual attributes that uniquely differentiate them from words, have appeared in a number of seminal decisions. Mr. Dellinger argues that the use of visual attachments poses special dangers. Because their neutrality and accuracy are so readily assumed, such attachments often elude the skepticism with which the written portions of Court opinions are generally reviewed. Yet their inherent distortions and vulnerability to manipulation make the Justices' reliance on them problematic. Mr. Dellinger reviews the past use of attach-merits and finds their use to have been generally unnecessary and unhelpful. He then argues that the Court should forgo any future reliance on visual attachments. In the alternative, the Justices, the companies that reproduce Court opinions, and readers should improve significantly the ways in which they respectively use, publish, and review these attachments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details a case filed by ProCD Inc. against Zeidenberg regarding shrinkwrap licenses in electronic databases. Allegations against Zeidenberg; Claims of ProCD on the case; Decisions of the court on the case.

Presents a supreme court case filed by Cede & Co. against Technicolor Inc. regarding appraisal rights of minority shareholders. Allegations against Technicolor; Decisions of the court on the case; Information on the companies.

Discusses the difference of the traditional lawyers and the modernize one. Description on the fundamental law of the Constitution; Role of the lawyers as neutral predictor of the output of courts; Function of lawyer as policy analyst and utilitarian social engineer.

Presents a court decision on the lawsuit filed by the National Basketball Association to the Sports Team Analysis and Tracking Systems Inc. regarding the misappropriation of valuable property interest in the transmitted information. Facts of the case; Challenges to the transmission of real-time sports information; Constitutional limit on the use of misappropriation doctrine.

Investigates the practice of minimalism in law subscribed to by judges and its implication to case dispositions in the United States courts of law. Effects of extraordinary cases disposition to democratic processes; Discussion on forms of minimalism; Reference to decided cases inspired by minimalist practice; Non-resolution of certain legal questions despite finality of decisions.

Provides information on courts rulings on several cases in the U.S. Application of the forum choice-of-law rules in the Edge Act lawsuit between A.I. Trade Finance Inc. and Petra International Banking Corp.; Decision on a breach of government thrift contract filed by Winstar Corp.

Presents information on court rulings on two cases in the U.S. Burroughs Wellcome Co. versus Barr Laboratories Inc.; La Cienega Music Co. versus ZZ Top.

Discusses several court cases in the U.S. Decision of the Fourth Circuit on the constitutionality of the University of Maryland Minority Scholarship Program; Details on Steffan versus Perry case involving military discharge based on a statement of homosexual orientation.

Focuses on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court on the case Honda Motor Co. versus Oberg stating that to pass constitutional muster, a punitive damages scheme must include judicial excessiveness review of the amount of jury-imposed verdict. Effect of the decision on the punitive damages context; Discussion of the punitive sentencing scheme of Oregon; Conclusion.

Reviews several cases filed in the U.S. Public Citizen v. U.S. Trade Representative; National Abortions Federation v. Operation Rescue; U.S. v. Perdue.

Presents court rulings on several cases in the U.S. in 1994. State versus Davis; Eckstein versus Balcor Film Investors.

Examines the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on the case Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain versus Boeing Co. that deals with arbitration and consolidation of separate proceedings. Details of the case; Implications of the ruling.

Focuses on the decision made by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) to allow a mother and her lesbian partner to jointly adopt a child. Interpretation of the Massachusetts SJC on the adoption statute of the state; Disagreement among the judges on the adoption case; Approaches of Massachusetts and Vermont toward adoption by same-sex couples.

Presents information on court rulings on several cases regarding religion in the U.S.. Employment Division versus Smith; Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye Inc. versus City of Hialeah; Lamb's Chapel versus Center Moriches Union Free School District.

Looks at two labor-related cases in the U.S. appellate courts. Decision of the New York Court of Appeals on a breach of contract dispute against a law firm; Stance taken by the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on a partnership discrimination suit.

Cites the decision of the Kentucky Supreme Court striking down a state statute that criminalized homosexual sodomy. Background on the case; Basis of the decision; Legal provisions associated with the case.

Investigates the progress of U.S. court decisions with regard to copyright protection in relation to the prevalence of computer programs, electronic database and the use of artificial intelligence. Regulations imposed by the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works; Provisions of the 1976 Copyright Act; Development of a framework for copyright laws.

Reviews the decision in the case Lamprecht v. Federal Communications Commission, filed in a circuit court in Washington, D.C. Background of the case; Basis of the court's decision; Limitations of the analytical approach.

Reviews U.S. court cases related to several topics. Antitrust law; Environmental law; Family law.

Focuses on the ruling of the U.S. Fifth Circuit court on the case between Albert Christophersen versus Allied-Signal Corp. Background on Christophersen; Extension of the court of the rule of Frye versus United States; Information on the rule; Analysis of the decision of the court.

Discusses the ruling of the New Jersey Supreme Court on a product liability case filed against cigarette company R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Facts of the case; Reasons behind the ruling of the court; Arguments presented by the plaintiff and defendant.

Highlights the judgment of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the Simeone versus Simeone that deals with family law. Details of the prenuptial agreement signed by the parties to the case; Implications of the ruling.

Reports on the court ruling of the U.S. Ninth Circuit on the case between Geary and Renne regarding the violation of California's ban on endorsements by political parties on the first amendment rights to free speech of the party. Approval of the court of political party endorsements in nonpartisan elections; Removal of limitations on political party endorsements; List of related lawsuits that followed after Geary versus Renne.

Discusses a court case between Evans and Jeff D. regarding waivers of attorney's fees in individual civil rights actions. Opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court on the case; Circuit court decisions that have relied upon the Evans case to approve fee waiver settlements; Details of an approach to fee waivers that restores a mechanism for judicial oversight of the negotiating process.

Discusses the court ruling of the U.S. Third Circuit on the case between the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Economics Laboratory Inc. regarding the right of persons in long-term disability leave to vote at union elections. Union election held by the company; Root of the dispute; Decision of the NLRB.

Analyzes the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court on the case Wygant versus Jackson Board of Education concerning minority business enterprise (MBE) set-asides. Details of the case; Application of the case to invalidate state and local MBE set-asides; Information on a test for identifying the presence of government's interest in nonperpetuation.

Criticizes the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the cases Sony Corp. versus Universal City Studios and Harper & Row Publishers versus Nation Enterprises, concerning fair use doctrine. Details of the case; Description of the fair use doctrine; Discussion of the alternative ways to reorganize copyright law.

Analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court case Richardson versus Marsh concerning the confessions made by nontestifying codefendant. Details of the case; Comments on the decision of the court on the case; Explanation of how defendants may be able to avoid the harsh consequences of confessions.

Comments on a reply to an article regarding foreign treaties in the U.S. U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Chines Exclusion Act; Opinion on treaties; Role of courts in applying statues.

Argues that U.S. federal courts were wrong to hold that the U.S. Congress may regulate immigration without being restrained by the Bill of Rights. U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Chinese Exclusion case; Opinion on treaties held by courts to be subordinate to subsequent statutes; Relevance of international treaties and the domestic law of the U.S. to Chinese Exclusion.

Explores on the nature and significance of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the CTS Corp. v. Dynamics Corp. of America case regarding corporate takeovers. Facts of the case; Reversal of the court's decision in the case; Discussion on the preemption analysis of the court.

Deals with the failure of the Miranda Rights to achieve its objectives and protect the rights of the suspects. Criticism to the Miranda Rights; Implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the case Miranda versus Arizona; Information on the Miranda decision.

Provides a panoramic view of the art and science of judging as seen by U.S. judges themselves and by their critics in the century from 1887 to 1987. Discussion of the involvement of judges in politics; Information judicial discretion; Conclusion.

Discusses the view of the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of death penalty. Information on a 1963 memorandum of Justice Goldberg; Courts' decisions in the Maxwell versus Bishop and McGautha versus California cases; Crimes for which societies have seen fit to prescribe death by authority of law.

Investigates the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court on affirmative action plans for cases involving racism in government employment and unions in the U.S. Facts of the cases; Reasons behind the rulings; Arguments presented by the plaintiffs and defendants.

Provides information on the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court on several cases in the U.S. Application of the death penalty on convicts claiming insanity; Decision on a case concerning political gerrymandering; Ruling on a case concerning free exercise of religion.