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Better to fade away than to burn out?

Marcel Berlins has a perceptive piece in today’s Guardian about Internet publishing and fair trials. He wonders about the future of the ‘fade factor’ in relation to the publication of pre-trial information (i.e. that material published in year X is unlikely to be a cause for a finding of prejudice in year Y) - [...]

Well I would walk seventy-five miles

Linda Greenhouse takes a whimsical look at the (US) Supreme Court’s caseload, discussing the case of Hackworth v Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. (pdf of the decision being appealed). The case (which hasn’t yet been accepted by the Supreme Court, or granted certiorari as the Court would put it) deals with a curious question: whether [...]

 
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