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Washington Post
July 24, 2000

Report Links Environmental Rulings, Judges' Free Trips

Federal judges who attended expenses-paid seminars that favor "free market" solutions to environmental problems struck down protections in some of the decade's significant environmental cases, according to a study of the increasingly popular judicial trips.

Last year alone, the report said, nearly 100 federal judges--more than 10 percent of those active on the bench--flew off to a luxury resort for the sessions. The seminars are underwritten by conservative foundations, which in turn get their money from corporations and other pro-business interests.

"Corporate special interests are attempting to buy judicial influence at the highest levels, and it appears to be working," asserted Doug Kendall, executive director of Community Rights Counsel (CRC), a public interest law firm that studied privately funded trips taken by hundreds of federal judges from 1992 through 1998

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MediaTransparency.org
June 30, 2000

Is it research or propaganda?

Conservative Professor Paul Peterson's work on school voucher programs raises serious ethical issues

Spending public money for private primary and secondary schools is a hot issue today. Conservatives argue vouchers will provide a better education for minority and inner city children, in particular. But what does the science actually say? In a close examination of the research used by conservatives to bolster these claims, Media Transparency has found gross violations of scientific principles including lack of peer review, statistical chicanery, and pure advocacy.

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Washington Post
June 29, 2000

Judges' Free Trips Go Unreported

Federal judges took more than a dozen expense-paid trips to seminars put on by conservative groups but failed to disclose the resort trips on their annual financial reports, as required by federal ethics laws, documents and interviews show.

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Salon.com
February 28, 1999

Tipping the antitrust scales

How the right helped make the federal courts safe for Microsoft

(contextualizes the Law and Economics funding -- compares judges who go to opulent "seminars" with their court rulings-- ed.)

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June 7, 1998

The American Spectator's funny money

The conservative magazine wanted to bring down President Clinton with its Scaife-fundedArkansas Project. Instead it may have opened itself to charges of tax fraud

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Antitrust Law and Economics Review
December 31, 1996

JUDICIAL SEMINARS: ECONOMICS, ACADEMIA, AND CORPORATE MONEY IN AMERICA

(good description of the ethical problems for judges in re the Law and Economics movement)

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Freedom From Religion Foundation
October 31, 1996
Alex Molnar

The Case Against School Vouchers

"...You'd think that the entire Catholic school system had been beatified when you listen to the voucher debate..."

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US Supreme Court
June 27, 1971

Lemon v. Kurtzman, U.S. Supreme Court in 1971

Sets up three part standard:

"First, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances or inhibits religion; finally, the statute must not foster and excessive government Entanglement with religion."

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