In an AP report on the Sixth Circuit decision in the surveillance case, Professor Robert Sedler gave the opinion that since the Bush administration has stopped warrantless surveillance, it is unlikely that the case will go any further. For details, click here (1 , 2).

In an op-ed piece, Professor John Mogk contends that it wasn’t the 1967 riot that caused the destruction of Detroit neighborhoods so much as what occurred thereafter. He cites a number of factors, including a lengthy teachers strike in 1973, ill-conceived federal neighborhood rebuilding policies that led to abuses, and neighborhood opposition to building auto plants that would help stimulate the city’s economy, among others.For details, click here.