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Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
CHICAGO-- May 1, 2000 --Chicago-Kent College of Law has experts available to discuss current legal issues. To reach any of our experts, call Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, at (312) 906-5251. Copies of press releases and earlier advisories are available on our Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/news/
May is Older Americans Month. Professor Howard Eglit is an expert on law and aging and the author of a three-volume treatise entitled Age Discrimination. Professor Eglit is available to discuss employment discrimination and other legal issues that affect older Americans.
U.S. v. Microsoft. Last week, the Justice Department and 17 states asked a federal judge to break up Microsoft Corp. into two companies. One company would produce Windows®, the computer operating system. The other company would run the Internet operations and make software applications such as Microsoft Office. The nation's largest software manufacturer said "the government's unprecedented regulatory scheme is unjustifiably punitive." Professor Christopher Leslie, an antitrust expert, is available for interviews about the case.
Attorneys for Juan Miguel Gonzalez have asked a federal appeals court in Atlanta to dismiss a lawsuit filed by his Miami relatives that seeks a political asylum hearing for his son, Elian. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service determined in January that Elian belonged with his father in Cuba. However, the relatives won a hearing before the appeals court. The court has required that Elian remain in the United States until it decides whether he should be allowed to go back to Cuba or get an asylum hearing. Professor Sonia Green, an expert on immigration and asylum law, is available for interviews.
"With God, all things are possible," the Ohio state motto, was declared unconstitutional last week by a federal appeals court. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the New Testament phrase was a government endorsement of Christianity. Constitutional scholar Professor Sheldon Nahmod is available to discuss the First Amendment separation of church and state.
A revival of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama, "A Raisin in the Sun," opens this week at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Events in Hansberry's award-winning play were inspired by her father's legal challenge to restrictive covenants in Chicago real estate sales that prevented African-Americans from living in certain neighborhoods. The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case, Hansberry v. Lee, in 1940. Professor Dan Tarlock is available to talk about the Supreme Court decision and about racially restrictive covenants in Chicago prior to 1948.
If you buy a cyber-lemon, what state or national laws protect your rights as a consumer? Chicago-Kent's Web site hosts the American Bar Association's Internet Jurisdiction Initiative, which is exploring whether traditional laws apply to electronic commerce and determining whether new solutions are needed. The project is divided into nine working groups covering advertising and consumer protection, intellectual property, payment systems and banking, privacy, public law and gaming, sale of goods, sale of services, securities, and taxation. The initiative marks the first wide-scale study of Internet jurisdiction in the United States, Europe and Asia. Professor Margaret Stewart heads the project and is available for interviews. The URL for the project's Web site is www.kentlaw.edu/cyberlaw/
At Chicago-Kent:
May 4-5: 19th annual Federal Tax Institute. Lee Sheppard, attorney and contributing editor of Tax Notes, will be the Tax Institute's luncheon speaker on May 4. The two-day program will review recent developments in case law and rulings in the federal income, estate and gift tax areas; international developments; estate planning tax strategies; and executive compensation issues. For more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/fedtax/ on the Web.
May 13: IIT Commencement. Stuart Graduate School of Business students will receive their degrees at Illinois Institute of Technology commencement ceremonies. Dr. Neal F. Lane, assistant to the President for Science and Technology, will deliver the commencement address.
May 21: Chicago-Kent Commencement. Approximately 350 Chicago-Kent students will receive their law degrees. The Honourable Madame Justice Louise Arbour of the Supreme Court of Canada, and former prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, will deliver the commencement address.
June 7: 4th annual Effective Expert Witness Program. High profile civil and criminal trials have increased public awareness of the expert's role in the trial process. Chicago-Kent College of Law has joined with the American Judicature Society, Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter and Lutheran General Hospital-Advocate to present a one-day seminar for potential experts from a variety of professional disciplines. The program will be held in Chicago-Kent's Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom. Physicians, nurses, social workers, accountants, psychologists and other professionals who may be called to testify as expert witnesses are encouraged to attend. For more information, call (312) 906–5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/expwit/ on the Web.
June 9: 19th annual Conference on Not-For-Profit Organizations. This one-day seminar is presented by a faculty of leading organization executives, attorneys, accountants and government officials. The program will include discussions on lobbying; hardware, software and services for nonprofits; Y2K issues; investment management; IRS developments and employment issues affecting not-for-profit organizations; and intellectual property protection. For more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/nfp/ on the Web.