Today's Legal News, October 29, 2001

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[IMAGE] Anthrax Scare Shuts Down U.S. Supreme Court Building American La=
wyer Media The anthrax scare reached the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, shut=
ting the building down and prompting the justices to take the historic step=
of moving their oral argument session today to another courthouse for the =
first time since 1814. The extraordinary move was triggered by the discover=
y Friday morning that an air filter removed from the Court's remote mail pr=
ocessing facility tested positive for anthrax. Full Text New Search L=
aw Likely to Provoke Fourth Amendment Challenge The National Law Journal A=
mong the new terrorism-inspired laws likely to be challenged is a provision=
that broadly expands the authority of federal law enforcement officers to =
conduct covert searches, according to Fourth Amendment scholars and groups =
across the political spectrum. Unlike other provisions in the package, this=
one does not have a "sunset" or time limit attached that would allow lawma=
kers to rethink its necessity at a later date. Full Text House Proposa=
l Would Strip FERC of M?Review Power The Deal While the adoption of energy=
legislation by Congress this year is uncertain, one developing bone of con=
tention in the debate is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's role in=
reviewing energy mergers. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, has written a controve=
rsial legislative proposal that would strip FERC of its merger review autho=
rity over energy deals, which Democrats in both chambers of Congress strong=
ly oppose. Full Text Texas High Court Turns Back Employees' Stock Optio=
n Suit Texas Lawyer The Texas Supreme Court held that former employees of =
a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. lost the right to buy company =
stock at favorable prices after Monsanto sold the subsidiary, Fisher Contro=
ls International. Over 100 Fisher employees filed suit after Monsanto refus=
ed to honor their stock options. The employees accused Monsanto of fraud, b=
reach of contract and breach of duty of good faith. Full Text ADVERTISEM=
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Cigarette Makers Must Disclose Product Recipes, 1st Circuit Rules The Nati=
onal Law Journal A Massachusetts law that effectively requires tobacco comp=
anies to disclose trade secrets would not cause any uncompensated takings, =
the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held. Philip Morris Inc. and nine=
other tobacco manufacturers sought to enjoin enforcement of the state's To=
bacco Ingredients and Nicotine Yield Act, which requires the companies to d=
isclose tobacco product additives in descending order of quantity. Full Tex=
t [IMAGE] Avoid Computer Snafus, Even on the Road American Lawyer Me=
dia More attorneys are going mobile -- ditching the desktop PC for a laptop=
. Clients expect us to be lean, mean, mobile lawyering machines, able to pu=
ll smoking documents out of the ether at a moment's notice. But what happen=
s when things fall apart on the road? Fortunately, an array of products and=
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wyer Spotlight State of the Art: Computers in Litigation Legal Times L=
itigators, like artists, face the problem of perspective: how to make judge=
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. Computer technology has come along to make the lawyer's task easier, and =
the pictures more powerful. But using such technology starts well before la=
wyers reach the courtroom. Visit the Automated Lawyer Tech News New Esta=
te Planning Software from CCH Law Office Technology Review Benjamin Frankl=
in said nothing is certain but death and taxes. We have yet to eliminate de=
ath, but Congress recently eliminated what it called the tax upon death. Th=
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Reviews [IMAGE] Up From the Ashes Corporate Counsel Cantor Fitzgerald=
, well known on Wall Street as one of the biggest bond traders, became perh=
aps better known as one of the companies hardest hit by the WTC twin towers=
' collapse, with about 700 employees missing and presumed dead. In the wake=
of the September terrorist attacks, general counsel Stephen Merkel must re=
build his department. But the law department that is gone is what most coll=
eagues and friends continue to think about. Visit In-House Counsel ADVE=
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Court Justices Declines American Lawyer Media After reaching a record high=
last term, the number of minority U.S. Supreme Court law clerks has gone b=
ack to levels that were typical before the issue first gained national atte=
ntion in 1998. The new numbers are triggering protests from minority bar an=
d civil rights leaders, and a range of possible explanations from those inv=
olved at various stages of the pipeline that feeds clerks to the nation's h=
ighest court. Full Text The Best of Both Worlds Texas Lawyer Law schoo=
l can be a killer, but a handful of students take on an extra load by study=
ing for another graduate degree simultaneously. Nancy Rapoport, dean of the=
University of Houston Law Center, says joint degrees, especially those tha=
t combine law and business administration, are increasingly useful. Dual-de=
gree holders leave school with a double dose of knowledge that can give the=
m an edge in the job market. Full Text [IMAGE] Cultural Workout The D=
eal For bankruptcy attorney Richard Miller, things have changed a lot since=
his days practicing in New York's garment district in the late 1970s, when=
things were done with a handshake. Nowadays, the field has become much mor=
e professional and increasingly global, with international bankruptcies now=
highlighting the need for a uniform, international bankruptcy code. Full T=
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