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Supreme Court Audio Set for Downloading
I had no idea there was an audience for this sort of thing. As is the case with everything, a quick Google Groups search proved me wrong.
--RJ
>From: M. Harton (supr_lvr@yahoo.com ) >Subject: Bootlegs for trade >Newsgroups: alt.music.scotus >Date: 2003/05/02 > >Just putting these out there- Still looking for Printz v. United States, New York Times v. Tasini and anything from the 1985 term. > >Disclaimer: Please remember these are BOOTLEG decisions. Don't hold me to >exactly what I rate the quality and the time of each. I am just giving my >best guess. If you are looking for some fantastic sounding recording you >aren't gonna like BOOTLEGS !!! > >New Jersey v. T.L.O. >Sound Rating: EX+ >Length: 80 Min. >Source: Soundboard >Not bad - one of Chief Justice Byron "Hailstorm" White's better shows. Not much >gallery noise in this one. Nice duet with Stevens and Marshall on the dissent. > >Miranda v. Arizona >Sound Rating: F >Length: 100 Min. >Source: Pocket tape recorder >Not sure why I put this up here. Everyone has this one. My copy has a bit >spliced in at the end where Bill Douglas goes off on some clerk about the >pastry cart being out of raspberry danishes. *Will only trade full tape* > >Rankin v. McPherson >Sound Rating: EX >Length: 68 Min. >Source: Soundboard >Case isn't usually considered one of the "landers;" Notable for Lewis Powell's >repeated, dead-on impression of then-President Ronald Reagan. > >Bibb v. Navajo Freight Lines Inc. (1959) >Sound Rating: G+ >Length: 30 Min. >Source: Unknown >I think this is from a wire recording. If so, it's in excellent shape and a >wonderful example of the Warren court era. Everyone points to the big ones from >these years, but this is the type of recording I look for. It's not a heavy >case, the pressure's off the boys and does it ever show! Frankfurter even pulls >his "Can't hear ya, Slim!" act on a poor bastard from the Illinois AG office. >Repeated references to Potter Stewart as "new blood" and "hot shot." Great, >great stuff. One of the most fun listens in my collection. > >Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) >Sound Rating: G+ >Length: 127 Min. >Source: Soundboard >Standard civil rights case from the 70s. Opening act is Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
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