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David Boies went into the U.S. Supreme Court Monday looking to peel an O'Connor or a Kennedy off the 5-4 majority that put his client's dreams on hold over the weekend. But he may find his arguments for a hand count winning over a much larger crowd - and on different terms than he was hoping...
...that case, but in 1997 Boies left Cravath after the firm refused to let him represent the New York Yankees in its antitrust suit against Major League Baseball. Cravath's longtime client Time Warner owns the Atlanta Braves, a defendant in the suit. Boies started his own firm, where three of his children are now among its 60 attorneys. He has burnished his reputation lately by breaking up an international vitamin cartel, being called in by a federal judge to handle a class action against Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses, and representing Napster in its fight against...
...Supreme Court decision does not in any way affect the contest before Judge Sauls" - before favoring reporters with some well-spun analysis of the implications. For Boies, still fighting for a clean-slate hand count of some 14,000 votes, a decision that at worst costs his client only the 400-odd Broward County votes and does nothing to the ongoing "contest" except muddy it up a bit is just another fly on his legal windshield. "There's no reason this needs to delay things," said Boies. He was slightly less optimistic after Sauls' clean-sweep-for-Bush decision Monday...
...valid in-state licenses, passports or military identification as proof of age, meaning that if an underage student purchases alcohol with an out-of-state ID, the establishment is liable. But many sellers accept out-of-state licenses at their own risk to serve the sizeable portion of their client base represented by Boston's polyglot student population...
...hello to Christopher. "You want the counting to continue. I know," Rogow said, before giving Christopher the same answer he'd given Dershowitz. Rogow is a loyal Democrat, but he refused to play politics with the law just because team Gore wanted to rush ahead with the recount. His client is LePore, not Gore...