Newseum -- "Pear v. the United States" mock trial:
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Description of Pictures: The issues involved in the Apple cell phone controversy will be argued in front of a mock U.S. Supreme Court held at the Newseum as “Pear v. the United States.”
Experts in First Amendment law, cyber security, civil liberties and national security issues will make up the eight-member High Court, and legal teams will represent “Pear” and the government. The oral argument, supported by written briefs, will focus on those issues likely to reach the actual high court, from the power of the government to “compel speech” to the privacy expectations of millions of mobile phone users.
The Justices hearing the case at the Newseum include:
* As Chief Justice: Floyd Abrams, renowned First Amendment lawyer and author; the William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University
* Harvey Rishikof, most recently dean of faculty at the National War College at the National Defense University and chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security
* Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union; the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School
* Linda Greenhouse, the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School; long-time U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times
* Lee Levine, renowned media lawyer; adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center
* Stewart Baker, national security law and policy expert and former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
* Stephen Vladeck, Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law; nationally recognized expert on the role of the federal courts in the war on terrorism
* The Hon. Robert S. Lasnik, senior judge for the Western District of Washington at the U.S. District Court
Lawyers arguing the case include:
For Pear:
* Robert Corn-Revere has extensive experience in First Amendment law and communications, media and information technology law.
* Ronald G. London, experienced appellate litigator and editor of DWT Privacy and Security Law Blog, PrivSecBlog.com
For the U.S. government:
* Joseph DeMarco, who served from 1997 to 2007 as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, specializes in issues involving information privacy and security, theft of intellectual property, computer intrusions, on-line fraud and the lawful use of new technology.
* Co-counsel is Jeffrey Barnum, a lawyer and legal scholar specializing in criminal law and First Amendment law who argued United States v. Alaa Mohammad Ali before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces while in law school.
Each side will have 25 minutes to argue its position before the Court and an additional five minutes for follow-up comments. Following the session, there will be an opportunity for audience members to ask questions of the lawyers and court members.
The program is organized on behalf of the Newseum Institute by University of Washington Law Harold S. Shefelman Scholar Ronald Collins and by Nan Mooney.
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PEAR_160615_002.JPG: Adam Clayton Powell III (left)
PEAR_160615_018.JPG: Gene Policinski
PEAR_160615_043.JPG: Ron Collins
PEAR_160615_050.JPG: Robert Corn-Revere, Ronald London
PEAR_160615_067.JPG: (left to right)
(Pear) Robert Corn-Revere and Ronald G. London
(US Government) Joseph DeMarco and Jeffrey Barnum
(Time keeper) Ron Collins
PEAR_160615_076.JPG: (left to right) Harvey Rishikof, Stewart Baker, Nadine Strossen, Floyd Abrams, Linda Greenhouse, Robert S. Lasnik, Lee Levine, and Stephen Vladeck
PEAR_160615_089.JPG: Floyd Abrams
PEAR_160615_095.JPG: (left to right) Robert S. Lasnik
PEAR_160615_100.JPG: Lee Levine
PEAR_160615_106.JPG: Stephen Vladeck
PEAR_160615_109.JPG: Harvey Rishikof
PEAR_160615_113.JPG: Harvey Rishikof and Stewart Baker
PEAR_160615_124.JPG: Linda Greenhouse
PEAR_160615_130.JPG: Jeffrey Barnum
PEAR_160615_194.JPG: Stewart Baker
PEAR_160615_197.JPG: Lee Levine
PEAR_160615_243.JPG: Nadine Strossen
PEAR_160615_257.JPG: Joseph DeMarco
PEAR_160615_380.JPG: "Miss Janet" (Janet Purnell-Thomas), ???, and ???
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Featured Folk: Some of the people here can also be seen on other pages on this site.
Abrams, Floyd appears on:
2019_DC_Celebrating_191211 Newseum -- Members' Farewell Evening -- Celebrating the First Amendment and the Newseum (w/Jan Neuharth, Peter Pritchard, Floyd Abrams, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Chris Wallace)
2017_DC_Abrams_170430 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Floyd Abrams ("The Soul of the First Amendment")
2013_DC_FOI_130315 Newseum -- National Freedom of Information Day 2013 (w/panels)
Collins, Ron appears on:
2024_02_17B1_Hasen Politics & Prose -- Rick Hasen ("A Real Right to Vote") w/Representative Jamie Raskin, Sherrilyn Ifill, and Pam Fessler
2017_DC_Collins_171112 Politics & Prose -- Ronald K. L. Collins ("The Judge") w/Adam Liptak
2017_DC_Abrams_170430 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Floyd Abrams ("The Soul of the First Amendment")
2013_DC_Swanson_131116 Politics & Prose -- James L. Swanson ("End of Days") w/Ron Collins
2013_DC_FOI_130315 Newseum -- National Freedom of Information Day 2013 (w/panels)
2012_DC_FOI_120316 Newseum -- National Freedom of Information Day 2012 (w/panels)
2011_DC_Miss_Innocence_111003 Newseum & University of Mississippi -- "Mississippi Innocence" premier (w/Tucker Carrington, John Grisham, Harry Edwards, and Angela Davis)
2011_DC_Afraid_110212 Politics & Prose -- Ron Collins and Sam Chaltain ("We Must Not Be Afraid To Be Free")
2019_DC_Celebrating_191211 Newseum -- Members' Farewell Evening -- Celebrating the First Amendment and the Newseum (w/Jan Neuharth, Peter Pritchard, Floyd Abrams, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Chris Wallace)
2019_DC_Sports_Page_191207 Newseum & Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism -- The Great American Sports Page
2019_DC_JMem_190603 Newseum -- Special -- Journalists Memorial Ceremony (2019)
2019_DC_Schmidt_190525 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Thomas Schmidt (“Rewriting the Newspaper: The Storytelling Movement in American Print Journalism")
2019_DC_Pulitzer_190407 Newseum -- "Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People" (w/Robert Seidman and Nathalie Applewhite)
2019_DC_Not_Enemy_190207 Newseum & Boston Globe -- President and the Press: #FreePress: Journalists Are Not the Enemy (w/Chuck Schumer, Marjorie Pritchard, Brian Stelter, Karen Attiah, and Marcela Garcia)
2018_DC_Special_Counsel_181215 Newseum -- What's Special About a Special Counsel? (w/Stuart E. Eizenstat, Kenneth Starr, Jonathan Turley, Greta Van Susteren)
2018_DC_Sports_Writers_181201 Newseum & Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism -- Sports Writers: Are We Also the Enemy?
2018_DC_WP_F2S_P5_180619 Washington Post -- Free To State 2018 (5) -- It’s No Joke: Comedy and Free Speech (w/Patton Oswalt, and Elahe Izadi)
2023_DC_USACPD_231212 U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy -- Public Diplomacy and DEIA Promotion @ USC Annenberg Center
2023_DC_Africa_Digital_231204 DC -- USC/PDCA/GWU/UW/HU -- Africa-US Forum: Africa's Future: Technology, Innovation and the Digital Economy
2023_DC_Cybersecurity_231106 DC -- USC/PDC/PDAA -- First Monday Forum: Election Cybersecurity as Public Diplomacy (w/Adam Clayton Powell III and Judy Kang)
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