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2002-2003 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 1 (2002-2003)

handle is hein.journals/prvw29 and id is 1 raw text is: Sk'-PS SUPRFE16 C0 COVERING THE COURT'S ENTIRE OCTOBER CALENDAR OF CASES, INCLUDING ... ELDRED ET AL. V. ASHCROFT In 1998, Congress extended the term of copyright protection for all works by 20 years. The Supreme Court is asked to determine whether this extension goes beyond the power granted to Congress in the copyright and patents clause of the Constitution and whether it violates the First Amendment. The case is important because of what it will say about the Court's view of the constitutional limits on congressional power and because it could remove copyright protection from a large number of works that are currently protected. MILLER-EL V. COCKRELL Thomas Joe Miller-El contends that prosecutors engaged in unconstitutional racial discrimination in the course of selecting the jury for his murder trial. He has introduced evidence that, among other things, the manuals used in the Dallas prosecutor's office for many years explicitly called for challenging racial minorities to keep them off juries. Now Miller-El asserts that when it refused to consider his appeal from the denial of his petition for habeas corpus, the federal appellate court improperly applied existing precedent forbidding racial discrimination in the exercise of peremptory challenges and incorrectly interpreted federal law. !lib

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