Cases to hear: quiet but key: on docket: initiatives, loitering, census, etc.; maybe Ken Starr too

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The US Supreme Court's 1997-98 term will be quiet compared to the historic impeachment battle involving Pres Bill Clinton unfolding in Congress. Cases already on the docket as of Oct 5, 1998 include a politically sensitive battle over the conduct of the next census, a major takings question involving beach development, disputes over class action settlements, expert evidence and mandatory arbitration, and constitutional challenges to efforts on the state and local level to stop gang violence and to control the initiative and referendum process.

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Class actions, 'Daubert' top '98-99 docket; Supreme Court faces more business cases than usual

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The 1997-98 docket of the US Supreme Court has cases ranging from handicapped workers and company whistleblowers to local telephone competition and nonscientific expert evidence. Commercial law issues account for more than half of the 34 cases the judges have already agreed to rule on this term. Whether the standards it articulated in its 1993 ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals apply to experts whose testimony is not strictly scientific is the issue in some of these cases.

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Elite D.C. Circuit's influence ebbs; era of landmark rulings is over, but court's administrative law docket gives it clout

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Opinion differs on whether the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit still qualifies as the nation's main administrative law court. Resolving disputes about federal agency actions is its prime work which in the 1996-97 accounted for almost half its docket, but observers feel the court's reputation has gone down in the last decade, resulting from a decline in matters associated with the regulatory state and the conservative judicial philosophy preferred in the US.

Management, Officials and employees, Administrative law, United States. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Courts of last resort

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