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In case you were wondering: the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal announced yesterday that a newspaper cannot be barred from covering its own trial.
The Orange County Register is being sued by 6,000 current and former newspaper carriers on some labor law issues that are not all that interesting.  What is interesting is the two [...]

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Following the acquittal of Shawn Bell’s killers, one of the lawyers pointed out an interesting discrepancy between the New York and Federal criminal procedure systems: in New York, a criminal defendant has a right to a jury trial, and can waive that right.  In the Federal system, however, the United States also has a right [...]

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This Editorial in the Washington Times begins:
There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who think it’s perfectly reasonable to strip search a 13-year-old girl suspected of bringing ibuprofen to school, and the kind who think those people should be kept as far away from children as possible
The first group includes officials [...]

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