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Cobb courts, DA prepare for big cuts and furloughs
Judges, prosecutors and judiciary department heads are looking to cut spending on everything from faxes to pizza as they carry out the Cobb County Board of Commissioners' directive this week to cut 10 percent of their annual discretionary budgets-and schedule five furlough days for all employees during the remaining five months of the current fiscal year.Exxon footnote shrouded in mystery
The footnote was easy to miss. It began on page 27 of Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, issued by the Supreme Court on June 25, and it ended on the next page. But Justice David Souter's footnote 17 has reverberated around law schools, leading Hugh Young, a lawyer involved in the landmark punitive damages case, to predict that "it is going to become the great mystery footnote of the decade.U.S. Supreme Court Debates a Key Issue of Attorney Fees
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Times reporters' call logs not shielded
THE PHONE RECORDS of New York Times reporters are not protected by the First Amendment or a common law privilege from a subpoena issued by a Chicago grand jury, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. A divided panel declined to decide the issue of whether a common law privilege exists for reporters' phone records, but said that "any such privilege would be overcome on the present facts" in The New York Times Co.Belafonte to auction unknown papers of MLK
NEW YORK AP - An original handwritten outline for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s first speech condemning the Vietnam War owned by his friend Harry Belafonte is going on the auction block this week.Sotheby's will offer the document for sale Thursday along with two others: the scribbled notes for a speech King planned to deliver in Memphis, Tenn.Gay marriage opponents vow to fight Calif. ruling
SAN FRANCISCO AP - Even as same-sex couples across California begin making plans to tie the knot, opponents are redoubling their efforts to make sure wedding bells never again ring for gay couples in the nation's most populous state.A conservative group said it would ask California's Supreme Court to postpone putting its Thursday decision legalizing gay marriage into effect until after the fall election.Trending Stories
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