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2000
NOVEMBER
November 14, 2000
Legal
Battles
Gwen Ifill leads a discussion on Florida election law.
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OCTOBER
October
11, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
A discussion on a lawsuit against the state of Alabama under the
Americans with Disabilities Act. |
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October 2, 2000
Supreme
Court
Ray Suarez leads a discussion on how this year's presidential election
will affect the Supreme Court. |
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SEPTEMBER
September 26, 2000
Wen
Ho Lee
Kwame Holman reports on the Senate hearings on the government's
handling of the Wen Ho Lee case. |
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September 26, 2000
Finding
Fault
Gwen Ifill discusses the handling of the Wen Ho Lee case. |
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September
26, 2000
Covering
Wen Ho Lee
After a background
report, Media correspondent Terence Smith talks with two journalists about
The New York Times' coverage of the Wen Ho Lee case. |
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September 21, 2000
Caps
And Courts
Tom Bearden reports on the battle over huge personal injury awards.
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September 13, 2000
Wen
Ho Lee
Gwen Ifill reports on the nuclear scientist's release from prison and
discusses the situation with U.S. attorney Norman Bay, a prosecutor in the case.
This interview is followed by a panel
discussion. |
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AUGUST
August 25, 2000
Nuclear
Secrets
Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos scientist charged with mishandling nuclear
secrets, will be released on bail. Terence Smith discusses the judge's decision
with Walter Pincus who has been covering the story for The Washington Post. |
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JULY
July
14, 2000
The
Tobacco Verdict
Mike France, legal affairs editor for Business Week magazine
talks about the record verdict against the nation's biggest tobacco companies. |
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July
14, 2000
The
Use of Force
The border between police force and brutality in regards to a
recent situation in Philadelphia. |
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July 13, 2000
Politics
and the Supreme Court
How will the Supreme Court be affected by the next President
of the United States? |
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JUNE
June 29, 2000
Supreme
Court Wrap
A look back at recent Supreme Court rulings on student prayer,
partial birth abortion, homosexuals as scout leaders and Miranda rights. |
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June
28, 2000
Abortion
Rulings
The Supreme Court struck down a ban on "partial birth" abortions and
upheld a law limiting protesters outside abortion clinics. |
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June 28, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs correspondent for
The Chicago Tribune, discusses other Supreme Court rulings handed down on
gay Boy Scout leaders and the use of federal money in religious schools. |
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June
28, 2000
Going
Home
Elian Gonzalez and his family went home to Cuba. A discussion with
Maria de los Angeles Torres, author of "In the Land of Mirrors: Cuban Exile
Politics in the United States", Juan Gonzalez, author of "Harvest
of Empire: A History of Latinos in America," and Charles Lane, an editorial
writer for The Washington Post. |
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June 26, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs correspondent for
The Chicago Tribune, discusses the Supreme Court rulings against blanket primaries,
and upholding Miranda rights. |
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June 22, 2000
Inadequate
Defense?
Texas carries out Gary Graham's death sentence this evening. A discussion
with Jordan Setter, professor of constitutional and criminal justice law at the
University of Texas, Margin Reynolds, director of the Criminal Justice Center
at the National Center for Policy Analysis, Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal
Justice Initiative of Alabama, and Paul Cassell, a professor of law at the University
of Utah. |
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June 19, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs correspondent for
The Chicago Tribune, discusses the Supreme Court rulings against student-led
prayer at sporting events, and upholding federal foreign policy over state law. |
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June
19, 2000
More
on School Prayer
More on the student-led prayer decision, with Jay Sekulow,
who argued the case for the Santa Fe Independent School District, and Steven Shapiro,
national legal director for the ACLU. |
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June 14, 2000
The
Sound of E-Music
The Internet site Napster.com has created a copyright controversy
by allowing users to download commercial recordings songs free of charge. Correspondent
Spencer Michels has the story. |
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June 13, 2000
Death
Penalty Debate
Governor George Ryan, R-Il., Governor Frank Keating, R-OK.,
Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Ut., discuss the death
penalty debate. |
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June 12, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs correspondent for
The Chicago Tribune, discusses the Supreme Court rulings against suing HMOs
and supporting the rights of employees to sue for discrimination. |
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June
12, 2000
Newsmaker:
Steve Ballmer
The CEO of Microsoft responds to last week's federal court ruling
breaking the software giant into two companies. |
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June 8, 2000
Newsmaker:
Joel Klein
The assistant attorney general who heads the Justice Department's
Antitrust Division talks about Wednesday's ruling to break up Microsoft. |
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June
7, 2000
Breaking
Windows
Extended comments from the press conference by Attorney General
Janet Reno and Antitrust Chief Joel Klein addressing Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's
ruling. |
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June 7, 2000
Consequences
of the Breakup
A discussion of the impact of the Microsoft antitrust ruling
with Bill Kovacic, professor of law at George Washington University, Ken Auletta,
a staff writer for The New Yorker who is writing a book about the Microsoft trial,
and David Yoffie, author of "Competing on Internet Time." |
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June
5, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
Jan Crawford Greenburg discusses the Supreme Court rulings
on grandparents' visitation and fifth amendment rights. |
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June 1, 2000
Tug
of War
Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez will not get an asylum hearing.
A discussion on the case with Bo
Cooper, general counsel for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and
Manny Diaz, an attorney for the boy's Miami relatives. |
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MAY
May
26, 2000
Internet
Privacy
Robert Pitofsky, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; Christine
Varney, executive director of the Online Privacy Alliance; and Marc Rotenberg,
executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center; talk about how
the Federal Government should protect privacy online. |
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May 22, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
Jan Crawford Greenburg discusses the Supreme Court ruling
lifting restrictions on adult cable television programs. |
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May 15, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
Jan Crawford Greenburg discusses Supreme Court rulings handed
down, including one that prohibits rape victims from suing their attackers
in federal court. Then, Michael McConnell of the University of Utah and Catherine
MacKinnon of the University of Michigan and University of Chicago discuss
the impact of the decision on issues of states' rights and Congressional authority. |
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May
11, 2000
Tug
of War
The appeals court heard arguments questioning the INS's decision
to dismiss Elian Gonzalez's asylum application. Jay Weaver, a reporter for the
Miami Herald, Wendy Young, staff attorney for the Women's Commission for Refugee
Women and Children, and Philip Schrag, director of Georgetown University's Asylum
Law Clinic, discuss the case. |
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May 10, 2000
Microsoft
Strikes Back
William Kovacic, an antitrust professor at the George Washington
University Law School, talks about the plan that Microsoft has proposed to counter
the government's breakup solution. |
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May 8, 2000
The
Crime Rate's Downward Spiral
Frank Zimring, a professor law and director
of the Earl Warren Institute at the University of California at Berkeley; Katheryn
Russell, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of
Maryland; and Jack Riley, director of the criminal justice research program at
Rand; talk about what is behind the falling crime rate numbers. |
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APRIL
April
28, 2000
Breaking
Windows
The U.S. government and 19 states suing Microsoft submitted their
proposal for penalties in the wake of the District court's ruling. Explaining
the government's proposal are William Kovacic, an antitrust professor at the George
Washington University Law School, Ken Wasche, president of the Software and Information
Industry Association and Richard McKenzie, author of "Trust on Trial: How
the Microsoft Case Is Reframing the Rules of Competition." |
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April
26, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
NewsHour regular Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs
correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, talks about the arguments heard by the
Supreme Court on the Boy Scouts' right to ban homosexuals from being troop
leaders. |
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April 25, 2000
Abortion
Challenge
The Supreme Court returns to the abortion issue for the first time
in eight years, Elizabeth Brackett of WTTW-Chicago brings us the history of the
case.
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April 25, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
NewsHour regular Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs
correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, talks about the arguments heard by the
Supreme Court on the partial birth abortion issue. |
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April 24, 2000
Newsmaker:
Janet Reno
Attorney General Janet Reno talks about her decision to use force
to reunite Elian Gonzalez with his father. |
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April 24, 2000
Chronology
of Events
A look at the dramatic 48 hours following the removal of Elian Gonzalez
from Miami on Saturday morning. |
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April 24, 2000
Congress
Reacts
Democrat Patrick Leahy from Vermont and Republican Arlen Specter from
Pennsylvania debate the lawfulness of the seizure of Elian Gonzalez, and discuss
the possibility of congressional hearings on the actions of the Justice Department. |
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April
20, 2000
Rule
of Law
Examining the legalities surrounding the custody battle over Elian
Gonzalez. Alexander Aleinikoff, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center,
who was general counsel during President Clinton's first term and Grover Joseph
Rees, staff director and chief counsel for a House International Relations subcommittee,
who was INS general counsel during the Bush Administration. |
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April 19,
2000
Supreme
Court Watch
NewsHour regular Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs
correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, talks about the arguments that were heard
by the Supreme Court on Miranda rights. |
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April 19, 2000
Focus:
Miranda Rights
A discussion of the Miranda ruling from the perspective
of police officers. Joseph McNamara is the former police chief of San Jose, and
Gilbert Gallegos is the former deputy police chief of Albuquerque. |
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April
12, 2000
About
Face
The fight over gun control heats up. President Clinton is in Colorado
to endorse a statewide ballot initiative, while Governor George Pataki of New
York also takes on the gun control issue. |
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April 3, 2000
Microsoft's
Bad Day in Court
Margaret Warner is joined by Bill Kovacic, an antitrust professor
at the George Washington University Law School, to discuss the ruling by Judge
Thomas Penfield Jackson against Microsoft. |
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MARCH
March 31, 2000
Tug
of War
Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez discusses the Elian Gonzalez case with
Senators Bob Graham of Florida and Charles Rangel of New York. |
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March
29, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
NewsHour regular Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs
correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, talks about the decision handed down by
the Supreme Court on nude dancing, and the arguments that were heard in
a case debating prayer at public school football games. |
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March 22, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
NewsHour regular Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs
correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, discusses a ruling that the Supreme Court
handed down on a key public education case, and arguments made in Massachusetts
vs. Myanmar. |
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March 21, 2000
Tobacco
Victory Analysis
Steven Parrish, senior vice president for corporate affairs
at Phillip Morris; David Kessler, dean of the Yale University School of Medicine
and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration; Matthew Myers, executive
director of The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids; Bert Rein, partner in the law
firm Wiley, Rein and Fielding who represents Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company;
discuss this victory for the tobacco industry. |
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March 21, 2000
Tobacco
Industry Victory
NewsHour regular Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs
correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, explores the significance of the 5-4
ruling against FDA regulation of the tobacco industry. |
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March 20, 2000
Locked
and Loaded
Ed Shultz, the chief executive officer of Smith and Wesson; Robert
Delfay, the president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association
that represents gun manufacturers and distributors; and former Maryland Congressman
Michael Barnes, the president of Handgun Control, Inc.; explore the newest developments
in the gun control debate. |
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March 3, 2000
Police
and the Community
Betty Ann Bowser reports on the continuing debate in New
York over the police shooting of unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo. |
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March
2, 2000
Targeting
Guns
Following recent shootings in Michigan and Pennsylvania, President Clinton
renewed calls for more federal gun control measures. Senior correspondent Gwen
Ifill examines the future of gun control in Congress with two members of the House
Judiciary Committee. |
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FEBRUARY
February 29, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
NewsHour regular Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs
correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, updates the proceedings in two cases
which were argued before the Supreme Court. Police power and the Fourth
amendments protection against unreasonable searches are at the heart of the two
cases. |
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February 29, 2000
Eliminating
Youth Crime
Correspondent Jeffrey Kaye of KCET in Los Angeles reports on a
"zero tolerance" youth crime initiative that's on the March 7th ballot in California. |
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February
28, 2000
Shooting
in New York
Senior correspondent Ray Suarez conducts back-to-back Newsmaker
interviews with Howard Safir, the New York City Police Commissioner, and Fernando
Ferrer, the Bronx Borough President, regarding the verdict of the Amadou Diallo
trial and the fallout that it has had in New York. |
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February 9, 2000
LAPD
Blues
Correspondent Jeffrey Kaye of KCET reports on another scandal that has
erupted in the Los Angeles police department. |
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February 4, 2000
Death
Penalty Debate
Elizabeth Brackett reports on why Illinois has temporarily
halted all executions of death row inmates. |
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JANUARY
January
12, 2000
New
Supreme Court Rulings
NewsHour regular Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal
affairs correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, talks about the Supreme Court
decisions and discussion about the rights of police, states and grandparents. |
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January
11, 2000
Supreme
Court Watch
NewsHour regular Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs
correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, talks about the Supreme Court decision
on states' rights and oral arguments in a new case that examines whether or not
Congress can allow rape victims to sue their attackers in federal court. |
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January
6, 2000
The
Right to Remain Silent
Paul Cassell, professor of law at the University of
Utah College of Law; and Steven Shapiro, legal director of the ACLU, discuss the
validity of the Miranda Rights. |
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January 5, 2000
Politics
in the Courts
Congressional Correspondent Kwame Holman explores the politics
behind the 4th circuit judicial nomination process in light of the conflict in
North Carolina. |
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January 1, 2000
Forum: Kids and Crime
Should juveniles who commit serious crimes be treated as adults? Cabrini College criminal justice professor Linda Collier and Northeastern University criminal justice professor James Fox respond to your questions. |
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