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Busy opening day
for U.S. Supreme Court
The Associated Press
- The Supreme Court took these actions Monday, the first day
of the 2001-2002 court term:
• Suspended former President Clinton from practicing law
before the high court and gave him 40 days to say why he should
not be permanently disbarred there. A Clinton lawyer said the
ex-president will argue that disablement before the high court
is inappropriate.
• Rejected an appeal from blacks in Oneonta, N.Y., who
claimed police unconstitutionally targeted them because of their
race. The case was unrelated to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
in which young Arab men were the suspected killers, but would
have given the court an opportunity to rule on the law enforcement
practice of racial profiling.
• Rejected arguments that convicted Oklahoma City bombing
conspirator Terry Nichols should get the chance for a new trial
based on the FBI's mishandling of documents in the case.
• Declined to review a lower court's decision that rumors
spread to hurt a company are not entitled to free-speech protection.
The case grew from Procter & Gamble's allegation that Amway
and a group of Amway distributors spread an old rumor that P&G
was linked to Satanism.
• Turned down an appeal from a Muslim rental car agent
who claimed her boss violated her civil rights by pressuring
her to stop wearing a traditional hair scarf at her airport
job. The case predates the terrorist attacks. Many Muslims have
complained that their dress or appearance has elicited harassment
or worse since Sept. 11.
• Refused to give former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker a
chance for a new trial in his Whitewater-related case. Tucker
wanted the court to throw out his 1996 convictions for fraud
and conspiracy on grounds that a member of the jury was biased.
• Refused to consider distance runner Mary Decker Slaney's
challenge of athletic drug testing. Slaney claims that birth
control pills may have led to her only positive test in a 25-year
career.
• Declined to take the appeal of a spectator who was asked
to leave a University of Mississippi football game in 1999 because
he was carrying a Confederate battle flag. The college banned
flags with sticks from athletic events in 1997.
• Turned down an appeal from some Japanese-Americans excluded
from settlement payments for their treatment during World War
II. The United States has already paid more than 81,000 people
whose land was taken or who were forced into camps.
• Refused to accept a hiring discrimination case that accused
Northwest Airlines of using background screenings to give men
a better shot at pilot jobs. Two courts had already rejected
arguments of a woman who claims her sex was the only thing that
kept her out of the cockpit.
• Refused to reinstate a Church of Scientology libel case
over an award-winning Time magazine article portraying the religion
as a greedy cult.
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