Back to 'Miranda;' as one lawyer prepares to defend the rule, four who helped establish the landmark remember its adoption

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The four attorneys who helped establish the landmark Miranda rule with their initial win in Miranda v. Arizona and later Supreme Court appearances of the case give some of their memories. The lawyers are F Conger Fawcett, William A Norris, John P Frank, and Victor M Earle. The memories span Supreme Courts through the Warren years.

History, Miranda rule

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States' immunity redux; patent, overtime cases bring issue back to high court

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The US Supreme Court will revisit the federalism issue in 1999, and the three cases, from Maine and Florida, involve the claims of workers entitled to overtime pay and of patent holders. They cap a wave of federalism beginning in 1992 with New York v. U.S., which held that the federal Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985, involved an unconstitutional requirement that states administer a federal program. Since that ruling, the judges have evinced their concern with protecting states' rights by issuing other federalism rulings.

Laws, regulations and rules, Federalism, State rights

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Whose court is it, anyway? O'Connor and Kennedy are swing votes; is that enough?

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Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor are swing votes on the US Supreme Court, but they share more philosophical consonance than dissonance and it is hard to say who is the more influential in determining the outcome of divisive cases. They are controlling votes but share a case-specific approach and have not done a great deal in developing a philosophical vision for the court. The court is more interested in balancing approaches than was true 15 years ago, and the two justices have contributed to that.

Officials and employees, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, United States. Supreme Court, O'Connor, Sandra Day, Kennedy, Anthony M.

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