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As deficit grows, Calif. prepares to issue IOUs By SAMANTHA YOUNG Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO (AP) - California's controller will start paying many of the state's bills with IOUs as soon as Thursday after lawmakers failed to close the state's worsening budget deficit, adding a new measure of indignity to a state sinking deeper into dysfunction.

Companies pledge more openness about Web tracking By DEBORAH YAO AP Business Writer (AP) - Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed.

SC governor silent as clamor grows for resignation By JIM DAVENPORT Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - After days of soul-baring and often odd confessions and apologies about an adulterous affair, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford went silent as the clamor for his resignation grew.

Court rulings loom on campaign funds, civil rights By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will have a new look - and perhaps a new member - but the same right-of-center tilt when the justices return in late summer to deal with unfinished business about money in campaigns.

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• Arnold's Wines, Inc. v. Boyle (U.S. 2d Cir.) - District court order granting defendants' motions to dismiss plaintiff's request for a declaratory judgment is affirmed where sections of the New York Alcoholic Beverage Control Laws banning direct sales to consumers by out-of-state liquor retailers and instituting a three-tier system for the regulation of alcoholic beverages evenhandedly regulate the importation and distribution of liquor within the state and do not discriminate against out-of-state producers in violation of the Commerce Clause, and thus are a valid exercise of the state's rights under the Twenty-first Amendment.

• Ricci v. DeStefano (U.S.S.C.) - In a Title VII action claiming that a city discriminated against white firefighter candidates for a promotion by discarding their test results based on a statistical racial disparity, summary judgment for Defendants is reversed where the city's action in discarding the tests violated Title VII, because a threshold showing of a significant statistical disparity is far from a strong basis in evidence that the city would have been liable under Title VII had it certified the test results.

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The Right of Confrontation: A Supreme Court Decision Reveals Strong Schisms

By SHERRY F. COLB
FindLaw columnist and Cornell law professor Sherry Colb discusses a recent Supreme Court decision regarding the meaning of the Constitution's Confrontation Clause, which gives criminal defendants the right to be confronted with the witnesses against them. As Colb explains, the Court recently split on the question whether the government, when submitting forensic test results (such as the results of a test as to whether a substance is cocaine), must provide the analyst who performed the test to be questioned by the defense. In addition to analyzing that decision, Colb also traces the Court's troubled Confrontation Clause history. View more Commentary »

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