. >> editor michael avery discusses the book "we dissent," which criticizes the decisions of the rhenquist court. it's an hour and ten minutes. >> good afternoon, i'm thrilled to see our students here this afternoon on the friday afternoon of the last day of classes for our winter quarter, so you're you've to exam studying all weekend, i'm sure, but this will be a good transition to that wonderful task, because we're very privileged today to have two of the nation's leading lawyers and law professors who do a very important civil rights litigation, we have with us michael avery from the the suffolk university of law, and michael has done a number of really interesting things in his life, including a three-year term as the president of the national lawyers guild. he served as president of the massachusetts lawyers guild. [applause] >> he had a dream job as a public interest litigator, being the head of the aclu litigation project? the state of massachusetts. iget get they're a commonwealth. so it shows that law professors can really do an interesting mix of theory and practice. we also have

. >> avery, one last question real quickly here. michaelackson's big money, there seems to be a big struggle going on right now as people look at the potential future of his name rights compared to the debt he was saddled with. who is going to get stuck with what? because the creditors obvious would like to get the money. i'm sure others would like to say, no, no, no, it's new income. it has nothing to do with the debt. who wins? >> a lot of people that will get, those that will able to get paid are the secured contracts, but for many people promised compensation, $400 million in debt, someone's going to get paid, probably the banks. >> tom, they will open neverland. it will be bigger than graceland. everybody is going to get paid. >> i don't know. >> your state will make a lot of money here. >> i don't know if anyone always gets paid because they fight and fight for every dollar. >> right. >> avery and richard, thank you as always. >>> to launch or not to launch, nasa has made a decision on the next shuttle mission. es than anywhere else.

i'veeen more of michael jacksos videos in the last five days than i've seen in my whole life! >> guys -- >> pat, you'ad avery, very, you know, cautious and restrained life. it's not true of all of s, pat, as you know. >> iot elvis stuff, mort! >> michael eric dyson,he final rd. only 30 seconds. >> agree with both mortnd pat that michael jackson is an extraordinarperformer. i sawim per live. incredibly talted person who touched every race, class, gender and sexual orientatn in the wod and think we need to celebrate and uplift the positives of him. it's not we don't have room for crical analysis as mr. buanan said but let that hold off. this man's genius shoulde celebrated and i think put the othestuff to res >> thank you all. at a crew! what a way to start off this morning show. thanks to all three of you. >>> new detas coming out ght now as president oba and his russian counterpart agree to redu their nuclear stockpiles and nuclear delivery systems and more information on the strategi importance to the pentagon that the rusans aged to allow the united states to y troopsnd weapons through russia othe way to a