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Justices torn on drug program; a case watched by many other states

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Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, a pending Supreme Court Case regarding Maine's discount prescription drug plan, is discussed. The Bush administration and the pharmaceutical industry charge the program violates the federal Medicaid law.

Legal issues & crime, Legal/Government Regulation, Drugs Reimbursement Benefits, Company legal issue, Cases, Pharmaceutical industry, Prescription drug plans

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FBI files show Powell was a pal of Hoover's; freindship begain before his stint as justice and may have eased his appointment

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A friendship between the late Justice Lewis F Powell, Jr, and the late FBI Director J Edgar Hoover, disclosed in the latter's just-released FBI file, is described. This relationship may have eased the justice's appointment to the nation's high court.

History, Behavior, Powell, Lewis F., Hoover, J. Herbert

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An Hispanic justice at last? Partisans see success near, no matter who's in the White House

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The expectation of the Hispanic American legal community that the next US Supreme Court appointment will go to a judge of their ethnicity is discussed. Both major presidential candidates have assured them that this will be the case.

Social aspects, Membership, Judicial selection

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