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Saturday, September 9, 2006

“CU law building draws crowd; Supreme Court Justice Breyer salutes students for role in funding”: This article appears today in The Boulder Daily Camera.

And The Associated Press reports that “Supreme Court Justice Dedicates CU Law Building.”

The University of Colorado School of Law yesterday issued a press release entitled “Colorado Law Celebrates New Building Dedication.” The press release links to two video clips: “Justice Breyer’s comments on Wolf Law Building” and “Justice Breyer’s comments on the U.S. legal system” (Windows Media Player required).

Posted at 2:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“James deAnda, 81, Lawyer in Case for Hispanic Jurors, Dies”: This obituary appears today in The New York Times.

Yesterday’s issue of The Houston Chronicle contained an obituary headlined “‘He is our Thurgood Marshall’; Houston judge had a major role in a landmark ruling on Hispanic rights.” Today’s newspaper contains an editorial entitled “James deAnda: The late lawyer and former judge worked quietly to end discrimination against Hispanics in Texas.”

And yesterday’s edition of The Corpus Christi Caller-Times contained an editorial entitled “James DeAnda 1925-2006: Activist helped desegregate area schools.”

Posted at 2:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“In Remote Prison, Disputes Flared Over Interrogations”: Sunday’s issue of The New York Times will contain an article that begins, “Abu Zubaydah, the first Osama bin Laden henchman captured by the United States after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was bloodied and feverish when a C.I.A. security team delivered him to a secret safe house in Thailand for interrogation in the early spring of 2002.”

Posted at 1:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Who Will Judge Sullivan Ruling? Jurists Backing Away From Battle Over Legislative Subpoena Of The Ex-Chief Justice”: Lynne Tuohy has this article today in The Hartford Courant.

Posted at 1:55 PM by Howard Bashman