Dec 13, 2005 | Case Comments, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 39
In the United States, a criminal suspect held in police custody may refuse to answer questions during an interrogation, but if a suspect waives this right, anything he says during questioning can be used as evidence against him at trial. The government bears the...
Dec 13, 2005 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 39
Employment discrimination remains a difficult and stubborn workplace problem for both employees and employers. Some of this wrongful conduct reminds us of terrible historical events. For example, in one case black workers reported being compared to slaves and...
Dec 13, 2005 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 39
”In truth, I am as distressed as the Court is,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, “about the ‘political pressure’ directed to the Court: the marches, the mail,...
Dec 6, 2005 | Notes, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 39
Computer systems that record data about automobile functioning have been inseparable components of many airbag systems since the early 1970s. With the full support of government agencies, the promise and utility of these ”black boxes” initially lay in...
Dec 2, 2005 | Notes, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 39
When Antje Croton took her three-month-old daughter, Clara, on a trip from New York to Berlin in December 2003 to visit family in Germany, she never could have imagined the ordeal that she would encounter upon her return to JFK airport. The wife of a United States...
Dec 2, 2005 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 39
The law of special education for pre-kindergarten through high school students has made significant progress in programming opportunities for disabled children in a relatively short period of time. A major issue, however, remains unresolved. Namely, what must a...
