Class debates: reproductive, disability rights mix in KKK Act cases

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A retarded woman can sue those responsible, including her parents, for her involuntary sterilization the 1971 Ku Klux Klan Act, according to a 1997 Third Circuit ruling. In holding for plaintiff Elizabeth Lake, sterilized in 1977, the court found the civil rights law applicable to disabled persons because they meet the statute's definition of a class. However, the issue is far from settled, since case law is inconsistent regarding disabled persons' reproductive rights.

Laws, regulations and rules, Disabled persons, Discrimination against disabled persons, Handicapped discrimination, Civil rights, Sterilization (Birth control), Sexual sterilization

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F. Lee Bailey's new digs; prison term, investigation follow spending of disputed assets

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Noted lawyer F. Lee Bailey was jailed by a federal district judge for not coming up with money from a drug case client of Bailey's, Claude Duboc, which the government claimed Bailey was holding in trust and Bailey claimed was his fee and his to spend. At issue was more than $20 mil in stock, the proceeds of which Bailey used for a down payment on a Florida home, computer equipment, two airplanes and a boat.

Contempt of court, Bailey, F. Lee

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Hard to say good-bye; courts refuse to rubber-stamp extradition requests

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US courts do not approve extradition requests automatically, and recent cases raise the equally controversial question of whether foreign governments should have to undergo the same scrutiny when seeking the return of their fugitives as US police do when seeking arrest warrants. Other possible grounds for resolving extradition cases are mootness and the fugitive disentitlement doctrine.

Extradition

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