“Judge delays ruling on privacy of teen sex”: Today’s edition of The Wichita Eagle contains an article that begins, “It will be at least a month before a federal judge rules on a bench trial that ended last week over the sexual privacy of Kansas teenagers.”
“Spotlight falls on Enron’s crash point; Defense attempts to show Lay was kept unaware of mounting losses”: Mary Flood has this article today in The Houston Chronicle.
USA Today reports today that “Enron jury hears 2 hours of conference call tapes; Defense tries to show what CEO Ken Lay was up against.”
And The New York Times contains an article headlined “For Enron, Unwitting Assistance.”
“Killer’s Legal Team Backs Off in Dispute; Lawyers for death row inmate Michael Morales have withdrawn allegedly faked juror statements supporting their clemency bid”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.
Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko reports that “Pro-clemency declarations withdrawn; Prosecutor says action amounts to forgery admission.”
In The San Jose Mercury News, Howard Mintz reports that “Decision nears on clemency bid; Judge asks for lethal injection data.”
And The Sacramento Bee reports that “Case against execution trimmed; Morales’ lawyers concede doubts about juror declarations.”
“Miller, Fitzgerald Face Off Again”: The New York Sun today contains an article that begins, “Journalist Judith Miller and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald squared off in court again yesterday, with a lot less public attention than last year, when the dogged special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame case had the then-New York Times reporter jailed for 85 days to force her to disclose the identity of an anonymous source.”
And today in The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that “Judges Hear U.S. Bid for Phone Records of 2 Reporters.”
In today’s edition of The Washington Post: The newspaper contains articles headlined “Former Official Backs Lobbyists in Leak Case” and “‘Don’t Ask’ Costs More Than Expected; Military’s Gay Ban Seen in Budget Terms.”
And columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. has an op-ed entitled “Bridging the Divide on Abortion.”
“The Gitmo disgrace”: This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.
In today’s edition of The New York Times: The newspaper contains articles headlined “Ohio Expected to Rein In Class Linked to Intelligent Design” and “Sergeant’s Raunchy Comedy Puts Police Career at Risk.”
And an editorial is entitled “Another Obstacle to the Asbestos Bill.”
“Gay marriage case going before NJ’s highest court”: The Associated Press provides this report.