Steven Shapiro
Steven Shapiro
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I think, inevitably, this will be remembered as the year of Bush v. Gore. In the judgment of history, that case will loom over the entire year. You have to begin there.
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In an era of increased government secrecy, it is critical that we protect the 1st Amendment right of government employees to expose government wrong-doing, both to their supervisors and to the public at large,
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For the self-directed investor, the Internet is hugely significant.
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The important question now is how the government is going to respond and whether the government is finally going to make a serious effort to hold senior policy makers responsible.
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My suspicion is they were engaging in a very large fishing expedition. And it had to do with breadth not urgency.
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Effective marketing and excellent customer service are critical components of successful cable systems. We are excited to have identified in Rudy an executive with demonstrated expertise in both areas and we look forward to working closely with him.
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So long as the civilian courts are open and functioning, American citizens arrested in the United States are entitled to due process protections provided by a traditional criminal trial,
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It's safe to say that the court's decisions this term will be scrutinized even more closely than usual to see if they foreshadow the court's future direction on critical constitutional questions.
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We have gone from a decade of stability ... into an age of uncertainty.