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June 22


  • Miranda to be revisited by the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Experts available to discuss recent challenges to Miranda
  • What rights do Americans traveling abroad have?
  • Highlights of the Supreme Court's 2008-09 term
  • Judge Sotomayor set to begin confirmation hearings next month
  • New report says that intrusive government authority over philanthropic organizations cannot reasonably be justified
  • Executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association announces plans to retire in 2010
  • Nestlé voluntarily recalls several varieties of Toll House refrigerated cookie dough
  • Current recession threatens baby boomers' plans to retire
  • Remembering the Stonewall Riots

June 15


  • Confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor scheduled to begin on July 13
  • Wrap-up of cases from the Supreme Court's 2008-09 session
  • Royal Dutch Shell to pay $15.5 million to families of Nigerian environmental and human rights activists tortured and killed in 1995 by the country's military dictatorship
  • 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots
  • "You Took Away My Flag: A Musical About Kosovo" tells the story of an interethnic romance between an an Albanian woman and Serbian man

June 8


  • U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge from former army captain who was dismissed for violating the Pentagon's ban on gays in the military
  • U.S. Supreme Court rules that West Virginia Supreme Court justice violated a defendant's due process rights
  • Chicago-Kent law professor's musical about Kosovo premieres on June 12

June 1


  • President Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court
  • As a district court judge, Sonia Sotomayor issued a ruling that ended the 232-day Major League Baseball strike in 1995
  • Has General Motors' bankruptcy cast a pall over the automakers' sponsorship of sporting events?
  • California Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of Proposition 8, the state ban on same-sex marriages
  • Chicago-Kent law professor pens musical about Kosovo's struggle for independence

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