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WORLD LAW Yemen: terrorist haven? Yemeni law takes the spotlight as authorities investigate possible terrorism associated with the recent explosion of a oil tanker off Yemen's coast. MORE WORLD LAW
FAMOUS TRIALS OJ revisited From the JURIST archives - Professor Douglas Linder takes a look back at the 1995 trial of O.J. Simpson for the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman [October 2000]. MORE FAMOUS TRIALS
MILOSEVIC TRIAL Is Slobodan Milosevic getting a fair trial? "As days pass it appears that spanners are constantly thrown into the works to make life difficult for Slobo. However his tenacity has impressed me and his experience in the legal field has helped him along.
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Saturday, August 24, 2002 LAW SCHOOL NEWS New law school launched at FIU Monday will be the first day of classes for 117 entering students at Florida International University College of Law in Miami. Approved by the Florida legislature in December 2000 along with another new law school at Florida A & M, the FIU law school held its first Convocation on Friday, attended by Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Harry Anstead. FIU Dean Leonard Strickman told JURIST: "The [entering] class has particularly strong academic credentials for a brand new law school, and is one of the most diverse in American legal education, with a minority enrollment of about 55%." READ MORE LAW SCHOOL NEWS
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Friday, August 23, 2002 WEB EXTRA! Moussaoui denied access to classified evidence US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has issued an order [PDF] denying Zacharias Moussaoui's motions for access to classified discovery evidence on the grounds that national security could be threatened if access were given. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MOUSSAOUI TRIAL
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LLM & SJD PROGRAMS International Trade Law at Arizona JURIST has just added the University of Arizona College of Law's LL.M in International Trade Law to our list of law school graduate programs. Thanks to Program Director Professor David Gantz for telling us about it! SEE MORE LLM & SJD PROGRAMS
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LAW SCHOOL NEWS Yale law library benefactor dies From AP: "Lillian Goldman, an advocate for women's education who donated more than $20 million to Yale Law School, died Tuesday. She was 80 and died of pancreatic cancer, her family said." LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LILLIAN GOLDMAN LAW LIBRARY READ MORE LAW SCHOOL NEWS
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WEB EXTRA! Secret federal court deals blow to Ashcroft According to a May 17 opinion [PDF] disclosed to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the secret US Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court, the US Justice Department misled the Court dozens of times in wiretap applications and could not be permitted to exercise broad new counterintelligence powers due to the likelihood that intelligence information would be misused in criminal cases. The Bush administration has announced that it is appealing the ruling. READ THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT
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WEB EXTRA! Sexual harassment award against General Motors overturned A majority of the US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned [PDF] an award of damages for sexual harassment made to former GM employee Diana Duncan. The court ruled that while the treatment Duncan had received from a male co-worker at a St. Louis-area plant was "boorish, chauvanistic and decidedly immature" it did not amount to creation of a hostile work environment as required by law. MORE NEWS ABOUT HARASSMENT
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Thursday, August 22, 2002 WEB EXTRA! No British Telecom patent on hyperlinking A New York federal court judge has ruled on summary judgment [PDF] in a suit against ISP Prodigy Communications that British telecommunications giant British Telecom does not have patent rights to Internet hyperlinking under the terms of a data access patent BT originally filed for in 1977, and was granted in 1989. GET MORE IP & PATENTS NEWS
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WEB EXTRA! Moussaoui counsel can file motions US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema has ordered [PDF] that Standby Counsel for Zacharias Moussaoui can file pretrail motions for him despite Moussaoui's objection that such filings are an attempt to seize control of his pro se defense. Standby Counsel argued that filing pretrail motions would ensure their ability to defend Mr. Moussaoui if he lost his pro se status during the course of proceedings. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MOUSSAOUI TRIAL
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WEB EXTRA! Alleged "junk faxer" hit with $2.2 trillion class action lawsuit A coalition of California activists concerned about the spread of mass "junk faxing" has filed a $2.2 trillion set of state and federal class action lawsuits against fax broadcaster Fax.com, alleging that millions of its faxes are clogging the nation's fax machines and phone lines, consuming bandwidth, creating a nuisance and even endangering public safety. READ THE FEDERAL COURT COMPLAINT
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WEB EXTRA! Official version of new corporate responsibility law now online The Legal Reference Librarian at the Law Library of Congress tells JURIST that the official slip law version of P.L. 107-204 was added to GPO Access today. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is also available for download in PDF. LEARN MORE ABOUT CORPORATE AMERICA IN CRISIS
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Wednesday, August 21, 2002 WEB EXTRA! Former Enron executive charged with fraud to forfeit $12 million The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a formal complaint charging Michael J. Kopper, a former high-ranking Enron official, with violating the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws. As part of a proposed settlement Kopper has agreed to be permanently barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company, and to forfeit approximately $12 million. Kopper also plead guilty to related criminal charges [PDF]. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ENRON DEBACLE
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EDITOR'S DESK Deep Link John Marshall Law School law professor David Sorkin is featured in a C|NET article that cites his Don't Link to Us website for its efforts to document and ridicule what he calls "stupid linking policies," such as that articulated by Law.com (now apparently under re-consideration!). Professor Sorkin holds that sites that prohibit deep links or otherwise restrict how other sites link to them do fundamental harm to the Web as a space for communicating information and ideas. JURIST agrees! LEARN MORE ABOUT DEEP LINKING
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WEB EXTRA! Electronic access to court records creates concerns The Washington DC-based Center for Democracy & Technology has just released a report entitled A Quiet Revolution in the Courts: Electronic Access to State Court Records. The report finds that more state and county courts are using the Internet to handle caseloads and to open judicial documents and proceedings to the public. However, as the courts dramatically increase the amount of information available online, they are encountering difficult and yet unresolved issues of cost, equity, and especially privacy. LEARN MORE ABOUT PUBLIC ACCESS TO COURT RECORDS
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LAW TEACHING JOBS Chair at Capital U. Law School Capital University Law School invites applications and nominations to fill the Newton D. Baker/Baker & Hostetler Chair. Applicants or nominees should have an accomplished record of teaching and scholarship, and a strong commitment to furthering that record of achievement. In addition to a competitive salary, the Chairholder will receive a generous travel and research allowance, as well as a reduced teaching load. The Search Committee welcomes applicants from all legal fields. READ MORE & SEE OTHER JOBS
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Tuesday, August 20, 2002 CONFERENCE CALENDAR Law and the Human Genome On September 27th and 28th, Duke's Center for Genome, Ethics, Law and Policy will be hosting a conference on Commercialization of the Human Genome. Full information is available on the conference website. SEE MORE CONFERENCE LISTINGS
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Monday, August 19, 2002 FORUM Is Ashcroft going too far? Professor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law writes: "[Operation] TIPS is just the latest manifestation of a steady dragnet by Attorney General John Ashcroft and the FBI to intimidate Americans and emasculate their civil liberties." Read her latest JURIST Forum op-ed, War on Civil Liberties Hits a Speedbump. READ MORE OP-EDS
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LAW TEACHING JOBS 5 tenure-track posts at WSU College of Law Western State University College of Law invites applications for five open, tenure-track faculty positions beginning in the 2003-2004 academic year. Curricular needs include: civil procedure, commercial law, contracts, corporations, criminal law, professional responsibility, property, remedies and torts. READ MORE AND SEE OTHER JOBS
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