For
more information, please contact:
Gwen Osborne, director
of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL,
PLANNING, BUSINESS, AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO-- December 4, 2004--Chicago-Kent College
of Law, the Stuart Graduate School of Business and the Center
for Financial Markets have experts available to discuss current
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/
'Tis the season to point and click. Analysts predict that
online sales will continue to grow during the 2004 holiday season.
Experts are available to discuss a wide range of e-commerce issues,
including Internet privacy, identity theft, site authentication,
and laws to protect online consumers.
Holiday displays of menorahs, nativity scenes and other religious
symbols on government property have often been the
subject of lawsuits. Professor Sheldon
Nahmod, a constitutional scholar, can discuss the controversies
involving the separation of church and state, and recent court
cases.
Major League Baseball players Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds
allegedly have admitted during closed grand jury testimony
to steroid use. However, both players publicly have denied using
performance enhancing substances. Sports attorney and adjunct
professor Eldon L. Ham says "The disturbing hypocrisy
of Major League Baseball's reluctance to fully test for steroid-based
drugs is a march of self-destructive legal folly that could dwarf
Commissioner Ueberroth's billion-dollar collusion blunder of the
1980s." Professor Ham, the author of The 100 Greatest
Sports Blunders of All Time, is available for interviews about
Major League Baseball's steroid policy.
Chicago's Third Airport? Gary/Chicago International Airport
is approximately 25 miles and 35 minutes from downtown Chicago.
While some suggest a new airport in Peotone, Ill., will relieve
congestion at O'Hare and Midway airports, supporters of Gary/Chicago
Airport say it is the best solution to the area's air traffic
problems. Professor Sanford
A. Bredine, who teaches marketing communications at Stuart
Graduate School of Business, is available to discuss a project
his students have undertaken to increase awareness of the benefits
of Gary/Chicago International Airport.
Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes has proposed a measure to fund
human embryonic stem-cell research in the state. Hynes wants
to create a research center partially funded by increasing taxes
on elective cosmetic surgery. A statewide referendum would go
before voters in 2006. Efforts to pass a stem-cell bill in the
Illinois Senate failed last month during the fall veto session.
Nigel Cameron, director of IIT's Institute on Biotechnology
and the Human Future, is available for Interviews about public
funding for stem-cell research.
Opening arguments in the trial of actor Robert Blake for the
2001 murder of his wife have been delayed for two weeks following
the theft of his attorney's computer. According to defense attorney
Gerald Schwartzbach, the stolen computer contained "the heart
and soul" of his case. Chicago-Kent experts are available
for interviews.
Singer Michael Jackson voluntarily provided a DNA sample to
police searching his Neverland Ranch over the weekend. Jackson,
who is free on $3 million bail, is scheduled to go on trial January
31 on charges of child molestation, conspiracy and illegal use
of alcohol with a minor. Professor and criminal defense attorney
Richard S. Kling,
who teaches forensic evidence courses, is available for interviews.
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