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Today's Phelps-Roper v. Strickland upholds a ban on "'picketing' or 'other protest activities,' within 300 feet of the funeral or burial service, from one hour before until one hour after the funeral or burial service." ("Other protest activities" is defined as "any action that is disruptive or undertaken to disrupt or disturb a funeral or burial service or a funeral procession.") The court concludes that the ban is content-neutral, serves the important government interest in "protect[ing] the citizens of Ohio from disruption during the events associated with a funeral or burial service," including disruption in the sense of "unwanted communication...

My petition for rehearing http://www.allanfavish.com/pet_for_rehearing.pdf (62 KB) received by the Supreme Court on this date. The petition is shorter than my full response of April 10 that was posted to my web site because Supreme Court rules limited the petition to 10 smaller-than-standard sized pages. The purpose for the petition was to set the record straight given that the chances of a rehearing are slim to none. Regards, Allan J. Favishhttp://www.allanfavish.com

The official transcript of the Supreme Court oral argument from December 3, 2003 in Office of Independent Counsel v. Allan J. Favish (Vince Foster FOIA Case) is now available at the Supreme Court's website at:http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts.html The transcript is an Acrobat PDF file that is 159 KB. Here is a direct link to it:http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/02-954.pdf Regards, Allan J. Favishhttp://www.allanfavish.com

The following is posted with hyperlinks in the Foster section of my website in the table entry dated December 3, 2003 for my FOIA case: Less than an hour after the oral argument I held a 25-minute press conference on the Supreme Court steps that was broadcast in its entirety by C-SPAN on its "America and the Courts" program on Saturday, December 6, 2003 at 4:00 p.m. (PT). The program is available in streaming video at http://www.c-span.org. The streaming video is 52 minutes, eleven seconds in length. My press conference was second on the video, beginning at 25 minutes, 18...

Supreme Court whitewash? Posted: December 11, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The Associated Press story covering the Supreme Court hearing on requested release of Vincent Foster crime-scene photos read as follows: "Five government investigations concluded that White House attorney Vincent Foster's death in 1993 was a suicide." Not true. There haven't been five government investigations. In fact, there hasn't been even one real government investigation. Instead, there have been five cover-ups, all using the same tainted evidence and the same tainted investigators. Attorney Allan Favish believes the public may learn something from 10 unreleased police photos of Foster and has taken...

Tonight on C-SPAN's America and the Courts, attorney and FReeper Allan J. Favish speaks to the press after arguing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court for the release of crime scene photos of Vince Foster taken where the former Clinton White House deputy counsel was found dead in Fort Marcy Park, Va. in 1993.America and the Courts runs tonight from 7 p.m. to 7 :55 p.m. EST. Mr. Favish's segment will be played second after another courthouse steps press conference.

Justices grill man who wants Foster photos Lawyer believes Clinton White House aide was murdered From Bill MearsCNN Washington Bureau WASHINGTON (CNN) --Supreme Court justices sharply grilled a lawyer Wednesday who wants access to 10 police photos taken when the body of Clinton White House lawyer Vince Foster was discovered in 1993.Several government investigations concluded Foster killed himself, but conspiracy theories persist that he was murdered as a part of a government conspiracy.In a case with legal, political and personal implications, the court will decide whether the public's right to access graphic evidence related to a closed government investigation outweighs...

Received a heads up from Kristinn: FReeper Allan Favish argued in front of the Supreme Court today about the Vince Foster photos. Allan is scheduled to be on The Big Story with John Gibson at 5 p.m. EST today to talk about it.

Despite recent evidence that Bill Clinton knew by 1996 that al-Qaida terrorists who had tried to topple the World Trade Center in 1993 had plans to hijack commercial planes and crash them into buildings on American soil, this evidence was ignored by the recent Congressional report on the causes of the September 11, 2001 aerial attack on the WTC. On May 20, 2002, David Horowitz, the Editor-in-Chief of this website, wrote an article entitled “Why Bush Is Innocent and the Democrats Are Guilty”. The article discussed Operation Bojinka, which came to the attention of U.S. authorities in 1995 when Abdul...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — Although Vincent W. Foster Jr., the Clinton administration's deputy White House counsel, killed himself more than 10 years ago, the controversy provoked by his death has yet to run its course. The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday on whether the Freedom of Information Act obliges the government to make public the graphic photographs that the police took of the death scene in Fort Marcy Park in McLean, Va. The question was whether the release of the photographs, sought by a California lawyer who questions the official conclusion that the death was a suicide, would be...

Vince Foster Death Photos Bring Access Battle to High Court Tony Mauro American Lawyer Media 02-18-2003 Nearly 10 years after White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster died in a Northern Virginia park, a contentious battle over public access to death-scene photographs is before the U.S. Supreme Court. While the circumstances of Foster's apparent suicide are now debated mainly on the Internet by conspiracy theorists and critics of former President Bill Clinton, the access dispute could result in an important ruling on privacy and the Freedom of Information Act. Similar skirmishes over release of autopsy photos of President John F. Kennedy...

On July 22, 2002, both the OIC and Foster's former wife and one of his sister's filed petitions for rehearing in the Ninth Circuit to stop release of 4 of the 10 Fort Marcy Park Polaroid body photos. Under the court rules, I do not get to respond unless the court asks for a response. In their petitions they pretend that I presented absolutly no evidence establishing that the Fiske and Starr reports on the death were untrustworthy. Of course, before the district court and the Ninth Circuit, they had a chance to show how I was wrong about that...

Hugh Sprunt and I will be guests on Jerry Pearce's "The Radio Detective Show" on Sunday, June 23, 2002 from 2-4 p.m. (PT), talking about Vince Foster. The station is KMJ 580 AM out of Fresno, CA. The web site for the station is http://www.kmj580.com/index.html, but you cannot listen over the Internet. The station is 50,000 watts and can be heard throughout Central California and in the Northern part of California and maybe farther. The call in numbers for the Jerry Pearce show is 559-490-5858 or 1-800-776-5858. Regards, Allan J. Favishhttp://www.allanfavish.com

I haven't had time to post it on my web site yet, but today I received an order from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stating: Before: PREGERSON, NOONAN and O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges The judges on the panel to which these cases have been assigned have unanimously determined that the facts and legal arguments are adequately presented in the briefs and record. Accordingly, these cases were submitted on the briefs and records on May 20, 2002 in San Francisco, California, without oral argument.