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Richard
Bonnie was quoted in a July 17 Associated
Press story on accused terrorist Zacaria Moussaoui's
competence to stand trial, saying "Being stubborn
and hardheaded does not necessarily mean being mentally
ill. It's a challenge for clinicians to differentiate
between personal characteristics that might be self-defeating
and symptoms of severe mental illness." A week
later, in the July 26 Philadelphia
Inquirer, Bonnie commented that Moussaoui's court
filings were becoming more and more bizarre. "What
he's doing is more than self-defeating, it shows delusions
and thought disorders. I'm increasingly convinced he
has severe mental illness." Bonnie was also quoted
in an Aug. 26 Washington Post
story on human rights abuses in Chinese mental hospitals,
comparing the situation with his experiences investigating
similar conditions in Soviet institutions.
A July 7 Washington
Times story on a potential wave of lawsuits against
corporations for political oppression in countries where
they operate included Curtis
Bradley's comments on the 1789 Alien Tort
Claims Act. Bradley said "Congress never had these
sorts of modern lawsuits in mind when it passed the
law," noting that its original intent was to allow
foreign citizens to bring suit in U.S. courts against
pirates from their own countries who were using American
ports as safe havens.
George
Cohen was a guest on the Aug. 16 CNN show
"Money and Markets," about lawyers' role in
preventing more Enron-like scandals. He discussed the
responsibility of securities lawyers to advise clients
on the legality or illegality of transactions, and suggested
that new legislation would "increase the risk that
the lawyers are going to be dragged down if it turns
out that what they advised clients to do was fraudulent
or illegal. When your feet are held to the fire, you
pay a lot more attention and you think a lot harder
before you give that kind of advice."
A July 23 Associated Press story on
a House bill which would create a broad category of
"attempted" federal crimes included Anne
Coughlin's criticisms of the legislation.
"The notion that you're going to fix the corporate-fraud
situation by suddenly passing 'attempt' statutes is
just ludicrous," she said. "It's a cheap solution."
An article in the July issue of Virginia
Business included Michael
Dooley's comments on the corporate culture
that led to the collapse of Enron Corp. Dooley said
that with the soaring stock prices of the 1990s, "all
of a sudden it was possible to become not merely wealthy
but ridiculously rich" by generating fast, consistent
growth. Regulators were loath to derail the economic
boom, but new rules aren't necessarily the answer. "Enron
had in place a solid governance structure and code of
ethics. They had a high-powered board, an audit committee,
and what, up to that time, was believed to be a very
reputable accounting firm. All the structures were in
place; they just weren't implemented."
John
Harrison was quoted in an Aug. 10 Houston
Chronicle story on an ABA task force criticizing
the Bush administration's jailing of Americans as enemy
combatants without charges or access to attorneys. He
said that with sensitive information potentially involved
in the cases, "there are legitimate national security
concerns." Harrison also appeared on NPR's "Morning
Edition" on Aug. 22, commenting on the scope of
executive power in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
He said that the Founding Fathers expected the president
to use all his power in times of war: "Alexander
Hamilton's classic description of how the executive
branch works in 'The Federalist Papers'—he said,
'Unity, secrecy and dispatch.' That is to say they have
a single commander, the president; they don't tell everything
they know, and they operate quickly."
A.
E. Dick Howard was quoted in an Aug. 4 Richmond
Times-Dispatch story on attempts by several newspapers
and a charity to obtain DNA evidence to determine the
guilt of a Virginia prisoner executed in 1992, saying:
"It's not clear to me what standing third parties
would have to ask for this evidence It doesn't strike
me as being like a Freedom of Information Act request,
where you're asking what people know. You're asking
here for the actual physical evidence." Howard
was also quoted in an Aug. 2 Washington
Post article on D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams's
exclusion from the ballot, commenting that the appeals
judges may find it a close call but that a ruling would
likely come quickly. "This is not Bush versus Gore,"
he said.
In an Aug. 2 Virginian-Pilot
story about a series of recent homicides at Fort Bragg,
John
Monahan warned against drawing conclusions
based on just three cases: "There are many possible
factors at work here. But it shouldn't be forgotten
that we are talking about only a small number of cases—three—and
it's also possible that we're looking at a statistical
fluke."
Jeffrey
O'Connell was quoted in a July 3 Christian
Science Monitor article on Common Good, a new
organizing seeking to reduce the amount of litigation
in the United States. Common Good doesn't use the label
"tort reform," and doesn't just blame trial
plaintiff lawyers for the mess. O'Connell, who sits
on the organization's board, noted that aggressive defense
by companies and their insurers worsens the adversarial
culture, saying "Anyone who doesn't recognize the
abuses on both sides is unrealistic."
Robert
O'Neil was quoted in an Aug. 28 Associated Press
story on the selection of Leroy R. Hassell Sr. to be
Virginia's first black chief justice. O'Neil described
Hassell as a principled moderate who is not easily categorized:
"My impression has remained consistent over the
years that Justice Hassell is a thoroughly committed
and thoughtful citizen and lawyer and he has been a
conscientious justice on the court."
A July 10 article in Education
Week on the political battle over school vouchers
included comments from James
Ryan that voucher programs will continue
to have a limited impact unless they are expanded. The
most significant barrier to expansion, he argued, is
the opposition of suburban parents. "Suburbanites
would not be all that wild about urban students having
unlimited access to suburban schools. A voucher program
threatens the status of suburban schools." Ryan
and his coauthor Michael Heise also wrote an op-ed piece
on this topic for the July 3 Washington
Post.
An article in the July 1 Wall
Street Journal on whether a new area of cyberlaw
is developing cited the views of Timothy
Wu, who argued that instead of a single Internet,
there are many different Internet applications that
all need to be discussed differently. He also noted
that cyberspace advocates tend to be deeply technocratic
and elitist, despite their populist rhetoric.
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VINCENT BLASI
"The Lawyer's Bookshelf," July 30, 2002, New
York Law Journal.
RICHARD
J. BONNIE
"The
Silent Treatment From Beijing/ Mental Hospitals Allegedly
Used to Quiet Dissidents, Falun Gong," Aug.
26, 2002, The
Washington Post.
"Moussaoui No Longer Pleads Guilty," July,
26, 2002, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau.
"Moussaoui's guilty plea is rejected," July
26, 2002, Miami Herald.
"Moussaoui Drops Plea, Faces Trial in October,"
July 26, 2002, Ventura County Star.
"Judge
Refuses To Accept Guilty Plea From Suspect Charged in
Hijackings," July 26, 2002, The
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Moussaoui's Court Filings—A Mix of Pop Culture,
Angry Allegations," July 17, 2002, AP.
"Bizarre Pleas Fill Moussaoui's Filings,"
July 17, 2002, AP story in The
Washington Post.
CURTIS
BRADLEY
"S.
Africa Suit Rips 'Gaping Wound'/Corporations Fear Political
Cases," Aug. 7, 2002, The
Washington Times.
GEORGE
COHEN
"Securities Law Analysis,"
Aug. 16, 2002, CNNfn/Money & Markets.
ANNE
M. COUGHLIN
"Police Oppose 'Attempted' Crimes,"
July 23, 2002, AP/The
Washington Post.
JOHN
HARRISON
"Balance
Between Liberty and Security Within the U.S.,"
Aug. 22, 2002, Morning Edition
(NPR).
"Lawyers' Panel Criticizes Jailings," Aug.
9, 2002, AP/The Houston Chronicle.
W. STEVENSON HOPSON
"Tightening the Spigot," August 29, 2002,
American
Lawyer.
A.E.
DICK HOWARD
"Va. Far Away From England in DNA," Aug. 4,
2002, The
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
"Mayor's
Race Becomes Court Case/D.C. Appeals Panel Agrees To
Hear Williams's Ballot Argument,"Aug. 2, 2002,
The
Washington Post.
PAUL
LOMBARDO
"State Asked to Apologize for Forced Sterilizations,"
July 30, 2002, AP.
DAVID
A. MARTIN
"New Book Offers Innovative Citizenship Policies
for Liberal Democracies," July 29, 2002, AScribe
Newswire/U.S. Newswire.
JOHN
MONAHAN
"Fort
Bragg Killings Bear Some Similarities/Highest Levels
of the Army Are Troubled by Spate of Homicides at Fayettesville,"
Aug. 2, 2002, The
Virginian-Pilot.
JOHN
NORTON MOORE
"Above the Law," Aug. 28, 2002, Salon.com.
"Constitutional Law," July 1, 2002, Legal
Information Alert.
JEFFREY
O'CONNELL
"Just
a Little Less Litigation, Please," July 3,
2002, Christian
Science Monitor.
ROBERT
M. O'NEIL
"Leroy Hassell To Become Virginia's First Black
Chief Justice," Aug. 28, 2002, AP State and Local
Wire.
"Free Speech: O'Neil Sees New Rule Book,"
Aug. 4, 2002, The
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
JAMES
E. RYAN
"Taking
School Choice to the Suburbs," July 7, 2002, The
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
"Taking
School Choice to the Suburbs," July 3, 2002, The
Washington Post.
ROBERT
F. TURNER
"Case of U.S.-Born Prisoner Tests Government's
Power," Sept. 1, 2002, AP.
"Courts Uneasy About U.S. Measures," Aug.
28, 2002, AP/The
Washington Post.
"Ruling by Secret Intelligence Surveillance Court
Raises Question About Terror Probe," Aug. 26, 2002,
Bulletin's Frontrunner.
"All
Things Considered," (audio file) Aug. 26, 2002,
NPR.
"Special Report with Brit Hume," Aug. 26,
2002, Fox News.
"No Due Process for Enemy Combatants" (commentary),
Aug. 26, 2002, The
Wall Street Journal.
"Court's Ruling May Limit Government Power to Spy
On Domestic Terror," Aug. 24, 2002, The Record.
"Secret Court May Limit Government Power,"
Aug. 23, 2002, AP/The
Washington Post.
Discussion of Treatment of War on Terrorism Detainees,"
Aug. 15, 2002, CNBC News/The News With Brian Williams.
"Building Symbols of Our Resolve," July 21,
2002, The
Dallas Morning News.
"Lindh Pleads Guilty/Analysts Say Deal Good For
Him, Government," July 16, 2002, The
Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate.
TIMOTHY
WU
"Boomtown: Hot Field of Cyberlaw Is So Much Hokum,
Some Skeptics Argue," July 1, 2002, The
Wall Street Journal.
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