Daily News Briefs: April  13, 2000
Date: Thursday, 13 Apr 2000 14:39:26 -0700

Table of Contents
Subject: NEWS
Date: Thursday, 13 Apr 2000 14:39:26 -0700

Top News - Relevant Hearsay
Elian's U.S. kin may resist deadline today
Jury refuses to clear Sam Sheppard of murder
Judges' Ex-Wives Seek Justice
Brown & Williamson says smokers denied class action in Calif.
Regal Cinemas sued over seats

Cyberlaw News
German Court Rules AOL Liable
Tax-Free Net Lives Another Day

Criminal Law
2 Officers Likely to Face Corruption Charges

Unusual  Legal News
Groom Arrested Minutes Before Tying Knot

Top News

Elian's U.S. kin may resist deadline today
Handover order to be enforced if U.S. relatives won't obey
CNN

The Elian Gonzalez custody battle was headed Thursday for a deadline -
and perhaps a showdown - with the boy's Miami relatives vowing to defy a
government order to put him on a plane to Washington for a reunion with
his Cuban father.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/04/13/cuba.boy.03/index.html

Text of Letter from INS to Lazaro Gonzalez (Elian's Great-Uncle)
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/04/13/cubaboy.ins.letter/

Jury refuses to clear Sam Sheppard of murder
FindLaw News

A jury Wednesday refused to clear Dr. Sam Sheppard of the brutal 1954
murder of his pregnant wife, denying his family's attempt to prove he
was wrongfully imprisoned for the famous crime that inspired the movie
and TV series ``The Fugitive.'' A jury of four men and four women voted
unanimously in favor of the state of Ohio after a 10-week civil trial
held to decide if a ``preponderance of evidence'' would find him
innocent of the crime which shocked the upscale Cleveland suburb of Bay
Village.

http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/s/20000412/crimeohioverdicturgent.html

Judges' Ex-Wives Seek Justice
Washington Post

Caroline Douglas has complained for years that she could not get a fair
shake in her divorce case because her ex-husband, former state Supreme
Court justice Chuck Douglas, knew all the judges in New Hampshire. Late
last month, a New Hampshire Supreme Court justice was accused of trying
to influence his colleagues in his own divorce case. That has set off a
crisis that threatens to bring down the state's highest court. As for
Caroline Douglas, she and three other ex-wives of judges plan to file a
federal lawsuit alleging they were treated unfairly by the legal system
because of their husbands' connections.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/A1338-2000Apr12.html

Brown & Williamson says smokers denied class action in Calif.
FindLaw News

Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., the maker of Kool and Lucky Strike, on
Wednesday said a California court denied a class action suit against the
cigarette maker, following the trend of courts rejecting mass class
action cases for sick smokers.

http://news.findlaw.com/Business/s/20000412/tobaccobrown.html

Regal Cinemas sued over seats
The Portland Oregonian

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Portland accuses Regal Cinemas of
violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by making only the worst
seats available to people in wheelchairs. The suit against Regal
Cinemas, a Tennessee-based chain that claims to be the world's biggest,
targets six movie theaters in the Portland and Salem areas that have
stadium riser seating designs. According to the suit, wheelchair users
can sit only at the ends of the first few rows, a violation of the ADA
requirement that theaters offer the disabled views comparable to those
of other patrons.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/04/lc_41regal12.frame  

Cyberlaw News

Tech-Deals - Internet Contracts - The Details
http://techdeals.findlaw.com
Meg Whitman & eBay, Dr. Koop's deal with drkoop.com & more
Amazon, AOL, eBay, Excite, iVillage, Netscape, TheStreet.com, Yahoo!

German Court Rules AOL Liable
FindLaw News

In a ruling that could give the music industry a weapon against Internet
piracy, a court said Wednesday that America Online is responsible when
users swap bootleg music files on its service. AOL Germany said it would
appeal. It argued that it lacks technical means to monitor the service's
huge data flow and that it had closed down the forum where music was
illegally swapped after learning of it.

http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20000412/aolliable.html

Tax-Free Net Lives Another Day
Wired News

House Republican legislators are pledging to hold off on Internet taxes,
calling a report presented to Congress a welcome first step toward that
goal. An advisory commission sent its conclusions to Capitol Hill on
Thursday, saying that the privacy implications of Net taxes should be
carefully considered. But during its final meeting last month, the panel
could not reach the necessary 13-person super majority to make formal
recommendations on the hot issue of how to tax purchases made online --
which means Congress will now have to decide what to do.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35617,00.html

Criminal Law
2 Officers Likely to Face Corruption Charges
Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office is expected to file
criminal corruption charges next week against two LAPD officers,
including one who faces separate allegations of attempting to frame a
defendant in a pending third-strike murder case in the San Fernando
Valley. In what would be the first such filings since the city's
worst-ever corruption scandal broke in September, Det. Brian Liddy and
Officer Paul Harper are expected to face charges of perjury and
falsifying arrest reports in connection with a 1996 gun planting case,
sources from the district attorney's office said Wednesday.

http://www.latimes.com/news/state/updates/lat_rampart000413.htm

Unusual  Legal News
Groom Arrested Minutes Before Tying Knot
Reuters/Excite! News

Undercover police swooped on a man moments before he pronounced his
wedding vows Tuesday and arrested him for using false documents and a
fake identity to get married in an immigration scam.

http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-wedding 

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