Daily News Briefs: April  18, 2000
Date: Tuesday, 18 Apr 2000 01:10:23 -0700

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Subject: NEWS
Date: Tuesday, 18 Apr 2000 01:10:23 -0700

Top News
Elian Decision Could Come Today
Battle Looms When Supreme Court Hears Plea of Boy Scouts to Bar Gays
High court tests abortion limits
Family in Texas Challenges Mandatory School Drug Test

Cyberlaw News - Download This!
Web Sites Face Child Policy Changes
Judge to rule against Bidder's Edge

Entertainment Law - Legally Entertaining
Diddley Files Lawsuit Against Nike

Criminal Law - Arresting Developments
Huge Kid Porn Ring Busted

Unusual Legal News
Village Slaps Extra Tax on Coca-Cola
Man Sentenced in Death of Halibut

Top News
Elian Decision Could Come Today
ABC News

A federal appeals court in Atlanta could issue a decision on the status
of Elian Gonzalez as early as today. The U.S. government wants the 11th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to order the boy's Miami relatives to
surrender Elian to his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez. Juan Miguel wants
to return to Cuba with his son, but has said he would wait in Washington
for the appeals process to end - but only if he has custody of his son.
But the Miami relatives are hoping the court will grant a full
injunction to keep the boy here.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/elian000417.html

Battle Looms When Supreme Court Hears Plea of Boy Scouts to Bar Gays
Asahi Shimbun

For anyone wanting a front-row seat at the next battle in the culture
wars, the place to be is the Supreme Court later this month when the
justices hear the case of Boy Scouts of America vs. James Dale. Neither
the Boy Scouts nor Dale, an Eagle Scout and former assistant scoutmaster
whom the Scouts expelled after learning from a newspaper article that he
was gay, come into court alone.

http://www.asahi.com/english/nyt/0416/nyt041604.html

High court tests abortion limits
Boston Globe

Next week, the court will hear arguments in Stenberg v. Carhart, a case
that tests the constitutionality of a Nebraska law outlawing a surgical
procedure the statute calls ''partial-birth'' abortion. Thirty states
and the US Congress have passed versions of the Nebraska ban, and by
July the court is expected to decide whether restrictions on particular
abortion techniques violate women's abortion rights, which the court
affirmed almost 27 years ago in Roe v. Wade.

http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/107/nation/High_court_tests_abortion_limits+.shtml

Family in Texas Challenges Mandatory School Drug Test
New York Times

After an emotional public meeting and demands that something be done,
the school board in Lockney, Texas enacted what is considered the
toughest school drug testing policy in the nation. It requires that all
junior and senior high school students take a mandatory drug test. There
is no choice; refusal by a parent or student draws the same punishment
as failure to pass the test, an in-school suspension for first
offenders. Now, as many other school districts across the country
institute drug tests, Lockney, with only 2,200 residents, has become an
unlikely constitutional battleground. A parent, aided by the American
Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit in March asserting that the
policy violated his and his son's Fourth Amendment rights prohibiting
unreasonable searches. Arguments in the case could be heard as soon as
this summer by a federal judge.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/041700texas-edu.html

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!
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Web Sites Face Child Policy Changes
CBS MarketWatch

Several Web sites are starting to revamp the way they do business with
youngsters as they prepare for a new federal privacy law aimed at
protecting children online. Under the law, which takes effect Friday,
sites that attract children under 13 must get parental permission before
collecting personal information from those kids, and disclose how they
use the data. Some sites are finding it easier to stop asking questions
or restrict minors from the sites altogether.

http://www.marketwatch.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CopK6Wdicsw50zxjUzxrdAgLSzhi&FQ

Judge to rule against Bidder's Edge
ZDNet

federal judge said he plans to issue a preliminary injunction against
Bidder's Edge Inc. in a suit brought by eBay Inc., a victory for the big
online auctioneer in a battle that could have wide implications for
Internet commerce. The scope of the tentative ruling won't be known
until the judge issues a written order, but U.S. District Judge Ronald
M. Whyte is expected to order Bidder's Edge to stop drawing information
from eBay's Web site. eBay alleged in a suit filed in San Jose, Calif.,
that Bidder's Edge violated the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by
using information from eBay's auctions.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2550905,00.html

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Diddley Files Lawsuit Against Nike
FindLaw News

If Nike thought it could sell Bo Diddley T-shirts without paying the
guitar legend, the company might not know Diddley. Diddley filed a
lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan late Wednesday against Nike,
saying the company had been marketing T-shirts with his name, likeness
and the words, ``You Don't Know Diddley.''

http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20000414/nikesuit.html
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Criminal Law
Gotcha!
Huge Kid Porn Ring Busted
Wired News

Underneath a monstrous heap of electronic kiddie porn, federal
prosecutors have uncovered a suburban Texas couple, three foreign
webmasters, and thousands of customers worldwide who left behind a trail
of credit card charges totaling $1 million. Federal prosecutors, who
watched with glee as a grand jury handed down an 87-count indictment
against the peddlers Thursday, say they've never had such a big case.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35684,00.html

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Unusual Legal News
Village Slaps Extra Tax on Coca-Cola
Reuters/Excite! News

Customers at the sole shop in the tiny village of Sainte-Marie will have
to pay three times as much for a Coke as anywhere else in France after
the mayor slapped on a new tax. The mayor of the southwestern village
has set a 300 percent tax on Coca-Cola sales on the grounds that the
drink -- the root of a Europe-wide health scare last year -- lacks
"traceability" which means the ingredients of the manufacturer's secret
formula are not listed on the container.

http://news.excite.com/news/r/000414/09/odd-coke
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"I once caught a rap THIS big"
Man Sentenced in Death of Halibut
FindLaw News

Many residents in this Los Angeles County community wanted the man who
killed and barbecued Big Mama, a beloved elderly halibut that lived at a
local hatchery for 10 years, to fry for his misdeed. But stealing and
killing a fish is not a capital crime, so 24-year-old Taras Poznik of
Hermosa Beach instead will spend six months in jail and six months in an
alcohol-treatment facility to atone for his crime.

http://news.findlaw.com/crime/s/20000414/halibut.html

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