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  • McDonald v. City of Chicago, Illinois

    Publication Date: 2010-06-28
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    Date Filed: 2010-06-28
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
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    Case Number: No. 08-1521

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 8030 OTIS McDONALD, et al., PETITIONERS v. CITY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, et al. p

  • January 3, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Still Burning

    If Chris and Maxine McNair have a hard time closing the door on the past, anyone could understand.On a Sunday morning 36 years ago, their 11-year-old daughter and three other girls, all dres

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  • April 30, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PLW - People in the News - April 30, 2013

    HonoredDavid B. White, founding member of Burns White, was one of two individuals named as this year's Distinguished Alumni by Duque

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  • April 25, 2003 | The Recorder

    The Right to Discomfit

    The Supreme Court at work on the First Amendment is not a pretty sight. Freedom of speech may be a noble concept, but the actual stuff of such cases tends to be sordid. In Virginia v. Black

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  • April 25, 2001 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Recognizing Rage of Racism

    One of my most vivid memories of growing up in Detroit is the sight of a jeep full of Army National Guardsmen patrolling my neighborhood in the summer of 1967. The vehicle edged along slowly.

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  • White v. Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska

    Publication Date: 2000-07-26
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    Date Filed: 2000-07-21
    Court: Neb. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Wright, Connolly, Gerrard, Stephan, McCormack, and Miller-Lerman, JJ.
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    Case Number: No. S-99-102

    1. Statutes: Appeal and Error. When an appeal calls for statutory interpretation or presents questions of law, an appellate court must reach an independent,correct conclusion irrespective of the de

  • October 3, 2003 | The Recorder

    Picking Your Fights

    CHICAGO -- This is a story about one liberal's newly discovered appreciation for the proposed Flag Protection Amendment. But first, a little history:During the 1984 Republican National

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  • April 29, 2009 | The Associated Press

    Execution rescheduled for Ga. white supremacist

    ATHENS, Ga. AP - A white supremacist convicted of murdering one of his followers is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday, a day after a Georgia judge corrected a legal glitch that delayed h

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  • Williams v. United States

    Publication Date: 2009-03-04
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    Date Filed: 2009-02-26
    Court: D.C. Ct. App.
    Judge: Farrell, Senior Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for appellant Williams: Richard Stolker, Rockville, Md.
    for defendant: Attorney for appellant Bryant: Christopher Kemmitt, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C. Attorney for appellee: J.P. Cooney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: Nos. 06-CF-1586 & 06-CF-1587

    Argued December 12, 2008Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, KRAMER, Associate Judge, and FARRELL, Senior Judge.*fn1A jury found both appellants guilty of distributi

  • April 28, 2009 | The Associated Press

    White supremacist in Ga. set to be executed

    ATHENS, Ga. AP - A white supremacist convicted of killing one of his own followers in Georgia is set to be executed Tuesday. William Mark Mize, 52, is scheduled to be put to death at 7

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