Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society, American Civil Liberties Union, January 15, 2003 . Read the full text of the report here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Barnhart v. Peabody, Supreme Court of the United States, January 15, 2003 . Read the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania, Supreme Court of the United States, January 14, 2003 . Read the opinion here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Human Rights Watch World Report 2003, Human Rights Watch, January 14, 2003 . Read the full text of the report here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Pierce County v. Guillen, Supreme Court of the United States, January 14, 2003 . Read the opinion here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

In re J.M., Georgia Supreme Court, January 13, 2003 . Read the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, January 8, 2003 . Read the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

An Empirical Analysis of Maryland's Death Sentencing System with Respect to the Influence of Race and Legal Jurisdiction, University of Maryland, Professor Raymond Paternoster and Professor Robert Brame, January 2003 . Read the full text of the report here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Court’s authority — possessed of neither the purse nor the sword — ultimately rests on sustained public confidence in its moral sanction. Such feeling must be nourished by the Court’s complete detachment, in fact and appearance, from political entanglements and by abstention from injecting itself into the clash of political forces in political settlements. [...]

In past elections, so-called “faithless electors” cast innocuously eccentric votes that provided a quaint reminder of one of the archaic curiosities of the presidential selection process. After providing a rare element of surprise in the otherwise perfunctory Electoral College ritual, these independent spirits who voted for someone other than their party’s nominee would vanish from [...]