Paul L. Boley
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Lewis & Clark Law School

Law in the News

Archive for April, 2005

4/29/2005

Erin Brockovich to Speak at L&C Law Commencement

H. Richard Uviller, Crim Pro & Evidence Authority, Dies at 75
:: Texts by Professor Uviller at L&C

Snow-Tubing Waiver Gets Test Run

The Hottest Ticket of the Term? Grokster
:: Read the Transcript (pdf)

Wiretaps in U.S. Jump 19 Percent, FISA Taps Excluded
:: 2004 Wiretap Report

Guantanamo Translator Says Interrogations Were Faked, ‘Sexed-Up’

The No Moyle Left Behind Act…

Woman Hit by Chair Suing Baseball Team, Players

Senate Breaks Block, Confirms EPA Chief

4/28/2005

Limbaugh Drug Case Privacy Appeal Declined By Fla. SupCt

One Year After Abu Ghraib Abuses Revealed, New Army Manual Limits Tactics in Interrogation

Future of Columbia Basin Dams Awaits Federal Judge’s May Ruling

Scalia is Right, Wrong and Part of the Problem

Congress Poised to Limit Minors Crossing State Lines for Abortions

ACLU Files Petition on Legislative Prayer on Behalf of Wiccan Witch
:: Simpson v. Chesterfield County Bd (pdf)

UK Releases Text of Pre-War Iraq Legal Advice
:: Note to the PM From Attorney General on 7 March 2003 (pdf)

Justices Dubious, to Put it Mildly, of “Weird” U.S Case on Andersen

Government Brief in Enemy Combatants Remand Argues Limits of Due Process for Guantanamo Detainees

4/27/2005

Human Rights Watch: Abu Ghraib Abuses ‘Tip of Iceberg’
:: Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees

Supreme Court, 7-2, Rules Farmers’ Common Law Claims Over Pesticides Not Preempted by FIFRA
:: Bates v. Dow Agrosciences (pdf)
:: Also today, Habeas Petition Barred by Statute of Limitation in Pace v. DiGuglielmo (pdf)

Joint Google-Libraries Book Digitization Plan On Course Despite Copyright Concerns

Europe’s Human Right Body Condemns U.S. Over Guantanamo “Torture”
:: Council of Europe Resolution 1433

Dean Velvel Calls for Summers’ Dismissal Over “The Larry Tribe Affair”
:: Annotated Version Courtesy of the Harvard Plagiarism Archive

Turn Your Law School Paper Into Cash

Law Schools vs. Military Goes to Supreme Court

Why Moussaoui’s Guilty Plea Probably Won’t Save His Life

4/26/2005

High Court, 5-4, Says Liquor-Smuggling Foreign Tax Cheats May Be Tried in U.S. for Wire Fraud
:: Pasquantino v. U.S.

Supremes, 5-3, Rule That Gun Law Does Not Apply to Foreign Convictions
:: Small v. U.S.

Oregon AG Affirms Public’s Common Law Right To Use Rivers
:: Navigability Opinion

Separation of Church and State Replaced by New Entity, Sturch

Ruth Bader Ginsburg vs. the Declaration of Independence

Job Market Is Looking Up for New Lawyers