Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Arguing at the Supreme Court Friday for Bush, Theodore Olson asserted that the Florida Supreme Court had effectively upended Florida election law, thereby violating Chapter 3, Section 5 of the United States Code, (3 U.S.C. 5), which states that laws governing elections must be made in advance of the election...
...argued that 3 U.S.C. 5 is merely a guideline, not a statute set in stone, pointing out that a different section of the law contains remedies in the event that 3 U.S.C. 5 is not followed fully...
...reduced Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, in a 20-hour deposition, to a hemming and hawing puddle, quibbling over the meaning of "concern" and "compete." How was Boies able to recall in court the exact wording of messages sent from one Microsoft executive to another? How did he keep every section of Florida's election code, down to the last subsection, straight in his head? No one really knows. Yale Law School professor emeritus Guido Calabresi remembers when Boies transferred from Northwestern University's law school (he was kicked out for having an affair with a professor's wife, who became...
State supreme courts are generally the definitive interpreters of state election law, and in this case the Florida court declared that it had to resolve two conflicting legislative provisions. Section 102.111 states that county returns not received by the secretary of state by 5 p.m. of the seventh day following an election shall be ignored. But Section 102.166(1) provides that losing candidates have the right to ask for recounts up until the time the local board certifies its results. Many counties, particularly large ones like Miami-Dade, might not be able to conduct full manual recounts if the seven...
KIDS LOVE: The exhibit "We Are! Arizona's First People," which focuses on the 21 federally recognized Indian communities in Arizona. Activities in-clude making a fabric- scrap doll and creating a section of a cape necklace as well as fashioning a paper canoe...