u.s. supreme court. she's here today to share her thoughts about that battle and about free expression in america. welcome, holly. thank you, ken. now, a membership in the n.e.a. four-- that's not exactly like joining the kiwanis club. no, it's not. it was kind of an honor-- dishonor sort of imposed on us by the national council of the arts when they took away our funding that had been recommended. it sort of sounds like a bad band, you know, that-- or we were later referred to as karen finley and the three homosexuals, which sounds like a really bad band. i've seen them play. [laughs] and yet this has been a battle. your status as a member of the n.e.a. four has been a decade long, really. yes, it all started in 1990, when the four of us were recommended for funding by peer panels in the n.e.a. and then, under political pressure, john frohnmayer, who was then chairman, took away our grants. and it was during a whole sort of public debate about controversial funding for the arts, and we decided to sue th

u.s. supreme court's decisions are final. and almost one half of americans cannot name the single united states supreme court' case. 90% named roe v. wade. we need to educate our citizens not only to provide information about the legal system but as bob alluded to and jeffrey alluded to, to instill confidence in our courts as the arbiters and decision makers of many vital issues in people's lives. this educational progress -- process begins in the schools and i would submit it begins early. it should begin in the elementary schools and justice o'connor is on target on where to start. we should not even be waiting until the high-school. but spend a lot of my time going into schools and i know a lot of you do too. the best reason for me to do it is it is a lot of fun. it is so enjoyable to hear kids, to exchange ideas with them, and i and my personal experience, i saw a lot of power in terms of diversity and who brings a message to the audience. one of the most frequently asked questions i get from elementary schools is can be b

u.s. supreme court.members of the brown family are satisfied, even though they called this partial justice. >> three out of five, i'll take it. three out of five. and they're away for good. for good. >> other family members say the fight for justice will continue until the state compensates them. >> we're still fighting. we're going to continue to fight. >> patrick cuffy, a free man, lives in st. croix in the u.s. virgin islands where he works as a security guard. >> it was really the biggest injustice of this case is the fact that patrick cuffy is still walking the streets because that guy engineered the assassination of derwin brown. >> a dekalb county police precinct has been renamed for derwin brown. and before she died, phyllis brown accepted a martin luther king distinguished public service award from coretta scott king on behalf of her late husband. >> he stepped up to the plate and he fought for what he believed in. he died for what he believed in. and i know he doesn't have any

u.s. supreme courts said, maybe a u.s.ut it involves the state and not the united states. so they are asking for this execution to stay while congress is working on a bill to give the courts more jurisdiction to hear these case. so that the justice department is saying that you can hold this off, this execution until we see what congress is going to do and delay the execution until the end of the current congress, and we are waiting to see what the u.s. supreme court does. >> pete williams in washington. thank you, pete. >>> courtney hazlett will join me next with the scoop. also, some things that you should know. former congressman mark foley revealed today he has prostate cancer, and he will undergo surgery tomorrow. the 66-year-old republican said that his doctors gave him an excellent chance to recover from the cancer. he resigned after explicit e-mails to congressional pages were made public. >>> and an appeals court in san francisco has ordered the government to immediately stop enforcing the military's ban on gays s

u.s. supreme court in 1905. they rioted in tenements and in the street. they forged vaccination certificates so the unvaccinated children could attend school. and perhaps most commonly, especially most common with most recent immigrants in the united states in cities, they get infected family members from the authorities in order to prevent them from being hauled off to the local isolation hospital. the scale of this popular opposition is all the more remarkable, because smallpox was still the most feared of all the terrible diseases that afflicted humankind. smallpox was the deadliest killer in human history. in a typical outbreak it killed roughly a third of all the people it infected. smallpox killed 300 million people worldwide in the 20th century alone. that's more than all the bloody centuries wars combined. but smallpox as you all know enjoyed another dissension. this is the only contagious disease ever eradicated from the human species. vaccination was crucial to that story. with each passing year, fewer and fewer people across the world have ever

u.s. supreme court has a network for the term. today, a look at some of the court's decisions. the court blocked a class action at wal-mart and allows video gamers to continue to sell violent video games to minors in california. that's toasted by the heritage foundation and moderated by a former attorney general. coverage under way at 10:00 a.m. eastern live. >> president obama spoke briefly to reporters about the debt ceiling and spending reduction negotiations between democrats and republicans. his remarks are under five minutes. >> no, everybody. i want to give you an update on the negotiations we have been having the last several weeks and i want to wish everybody a happy fourth of july. coba the july 4 weekend, my team and i had a series of discussions with congressional leaders in both parties. we have made progress and i believe that greater progress is within sight, but i don't want to fool anybody. we donhave to work through some real differences. i have heard reports that there may be some in congress wghho want to do just enough to make sure america will its defaulti

u.s. supreme court decision and the city of rancho palace estates versus abrams that ruled in these types of lawsuits, t-mobile is not permitted under law of obtaining any monetary damages from the city or any attorneys' fees from the city. and neighbors are willing to pay for the experteds and there are no compelling reason to settle the case and bill sanders can go on at length about the abrams case and there are no compelling policy reasons to settle. claudia wilkins is an intelligent, thoughtful judge with a track record and a willingness to stand up for very powerful vested interests. and perhaps most important of all, the neighbors who have shown up today are unanimous in not wanting the city to settle this case, and of course, you are ultimately the elected representative of these folks. thanks for your time. and please vote to deny these settlement. thank you. supervisor kim: is there any other public comment? we had a motion to convene into closed session and we can do that without opposition. we are asking all members of the public to exit the room at this time. thank you so muc

u.s. supreme court recently threw out a lawsuit alleging to be.

supreme court now to decide this. it'll just keep getting kicked back until it reaches, i think, the u.s. supreme court, and then they'll really have a choice between standing by the analysis they did in 19991 in quill v. north dakota or sort of changing the whole doctrine. and, but until they do that, i think tax lawyers are pretty confident that once this gets kicked up all the levels from new york up to the supreme court it will be decided against new york, you know, until -- or unless it will be a sharp turn in supreme court reasoning if they go from an 8-1 decision 20 years ago to a completely, to taking the other side now. >> host: mr. byrne, are you collecting sales tax in be new york, and what about california? >> guest: no, we're collecting sales tax in neither place because as soon as the law gets passed we, or the night before it gets passed or becomes effective, we send an e-mail to all of our affiliates saying, very record ri, we thank you, we built a nice record together, but as long as your state has this law, we have to sever our relationship. as soon as they expand the nex

u.s. supreme court since 1985, you know, where indian nations have lost over 80% of their cases, you know,hat come before the supreme court in some terms losing more than 88% of our cases which means indian, well, that prison inmates actually fare better or receive better treatment by the supreme court than our indian nations. and so as a lifelong practitioner of federal indian law, that troubled me, you know? and it's also led a lot of our tribal leaders and concerned legal scholars, you know, to ask, you know, is federal indian law dead, you know? and so i wanted to write a book. i was inspired, as i always have been, by notions of justice to try to write a book, sort of a unique study of the law to try to understand if i could the forces at work that have, that sort of explain the amazing prevalence of unjust cases relating to american indians that we see in american legal history. and we have a lot of very unjust decisions that i think many of us take for granted today, but they are cases that were decided by the courts, um, during the course of manifest destiny when our nation was ben

u.s. supreme court decision. it will allow financing campaign caps to continue to get raised above initial caps, but does not allow further public financing dollars to be allocated beyond the initial cap. i understand there will be significant dialogue about this cap as a will have an impact on the mayor's race and supervisor races. it requires a super majority vote at the board to amend. given the number of plaintiffs waiting to file suit against that, we hope we can act swiftly and i look forward to taking this matter up as quickly as possible to avoid these lawsuits. i want to quickly think not only supervisor -- thank not only supervisor elsbernd, co- sponsor, but the attorneys who have been working with us since the city attorney is not allowed to work on this. i am going to sever an item later on, so i will send this to later. supervisor chu: i would like to adjourn in the memory of michael soden. san francisco has lost one of its great sports historians when he passed away june 1, 2011, at age 67. he was g

u.s. supreme court. paulette frankl, "lust for justice," tony serra, and sheldon siegal. so before we take a break, i do have a surprise. a few years ago, i guess six or seven years ago, i met an amazing artist. i was visiting his home. and he had created this wonderful sculpture. i immediately recognized it as being clarence. it turned out that he had created a number of just amazing sculptures of trial lawyers. and he went on to do one of clara fults, the first woman attorney in california and became the leader of the public defender movement. and just by happenstance, he called me and had this idea of encapsulating one of the greatest trial attorneys of our times. so, bill? is he here? this is not a magistrate. [laughing] -- not a magic trick. >> i've never met tony serra, so i have to make use of the internet to get a sense of who he was and the imagery. what clearly came over was his passion for justice. and in some cases almost a rage for justice. and initially when i started the imagery with the clay, i tried to show this passion for justice, this rage. but then i

u.s. supreme court decisions are close rock. reasonable minds can differ. >> this is something will probably be talking about even three years for now. a >> it will be in the courts for a long time. >> i've been gold, to give for joining us. we will be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. >> a big profits reported by chevron. a 43% profit jump. the san ramon this company made 7.7 billion in the three months ending june 30th of out of higher gas and oil prices. big profits falling and one with of or oil companies. against the exxon mobil reported $10.7 billion and would prompt a pop and royal dutch shell reported an 8.7 billion current profit. apple is setting records with ipad and iphone. the ipod is sinking fast. sales fell 20% from a year ago. revenue dropped 15%. we're keeping our eyes on wall street. the dow jones was down 141 and then down just 20. now it is down 67 points. we have reports coming out to showing slow economic growth. there are rumors that a debt deal was done in washington. hot all eyes on bay are

supreme court ruling. "newshour" correspondent spencer michels reports. >> reporter: it was scenes like this in a gymnasium at solano state prison in central california that convinced the u.s. supreme court last may to order the state to reduce its prison population of 143,000 inmates. justice anthony kennedy used three photos of jammed prisons to illustrate his majority opinion. the court found that more than a decade of overcrowding in a system with nearly twice as many prisoners as it was designed for defied constitutional standards and lead to what kennedy called "grossly inadequate" medical and mental health care. since the court ruling, the state has begun reducing the numbers. the solano gym has been cleared of bunks, as some prisoners were shipped out of state. but the court ordered an additional 10,000 fewer inmates statewide by november, and a reduction of 33,000 within two years to remedy a situation of which the inmates are well aware. >> the major effects is the bathrooms, showering, just basic hygienic type of situations, crowded chow halls. you know, there's people everywhere. >> when the heat would rise, you know, incidents would just pop off left and right

u.s. supreme court recently threw out a lawsuit alleging abuse of prisoners by the contractors. in afghanistan it's reported that he.

u.s. supreme court recently threw out a lawsuit alleging abuse of prisoners by the contractors. in afghanistan it's reported that human rights violations and it would killings are committed by security firms on a.

u.s. supreme court recently threw out a lawsuit alleging abuse of prisoners by the contractors. in afghanistan it's reported that human rights violations and even killings are committed by security firms on a regular basis to an extent set to undermine coalition forces counterinsurgency efforts they'll start firing at anything that moves they will injure or kill innocent afghans and they'll destroy property we're getting fairly consistent complaints about them everybody knows somebody who's been shot by the contractors' . the lack of accountability has forced the united nations working group on mercenaries to push for specific international measures to regulate their activities especially now as u.s. military forces withdraw from iraq and afghanistan the number of contractors is said to grow dramatically u.s. . source many of the military and security functions to meet and security companies they are not related in that they are not control and this is what we're extremely concerned that what we are calling is for relation to the national and international level so that. compani

u.s. supreme court overturned the ban, ruling that dc residents have a constitutionally right to bear arms. now they may propose that the city itself become a firearms dealer. an irony some would call cruel, others ridiculous. >> no way. >> reporter: here is the deal. because right now there are no licensed gun dealers in the city or anybody licensed to transfer out of state guns, the city could very well be violating resident's right to bear arm an could be exposed to lawsuits. >> i'm flabbergasted. >> reporter: so phil is said to be considering proposing making the district itself a licensed firearms dealer for the purpose of transfering out of state guns. >> no thank you. >> reporter: dc residents we talked to did not like the idea at all. >> take your guns and go to maryland or virginia. >> reporter: nor did city council member marion barry. washington should never under any circumstances be in the business of dealing guns. >> if you propose that the dc government is going to become a licensed dealer, that's craziness. >> reporter: we were unable to reach councilman mendel tonight. the